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Case study: Let's Talk Science
Let's Talk Science Modernised Digital Learning on a Cloud-Native AWS Stack
A national K-12 STEM platform outgrew its physical servers. Pilotcore led a strategic AWS migration with containerised .NET apps on Fargate, S3 plus CloudFront for content delivery, and CloudFormation for reproducible infrastructure.
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Sector
EdTech, K-12 STEM
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Engagement
Strategic cloud migration
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Stack
AWS Fargate, S3, CloudFront, RDS, CloudFormation
Challenge
A growing STEM platform outgrew its physical servers.
Let's Talk Science is a leader in STEM education for K-12. The platform needed to modernise its infrastructure to improve content delivery and scale with classroom demand.
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Limited scalability.
Physical servers could not support the growing user base of educators and students.
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Content delivery bottlenecks.
Inefficient resource roll-out hurt responsiveness for time-sensitive classroom use.
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High operational costs.
Managing physical servers was costly and absorbed time that should have gone to the platform.
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Data security risks.
Physical servers exposed sensitive educational data to risks the team wanted to retire.
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Delivery pressure.
The existing infrastructure made it harder to keep pace with evolving platform demands.
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Compliance expectations.
The platform needed to meet stringent data protection standards for K-12 use.
Approach
A tailored cloud strategy on AWS.
We worked with the platform team to map their needs and design a migration plan that addressed scale, delivery, security, and operating cost together.
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Thorough assessment.
Analysed the existing infrastructure to surface the most important risks first.
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Stakeholder engagement.
Held detailed discussions to understand specific needs across teaching and platform use.
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Cloud strategy design.
Built a solution on AWS services optimised for content delivery and scale.
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Migration planning.
Produced a detailed roadmap that minimised disruption during the cloud transition.
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Compliance mapping.
Designed controls to improve readiness for educational data protection standards.
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Knowledge transfer.
Trained the team on cloud management and the operating practices that come with it.
Solution
A scalable, secure cloud platform built for classroom use.
A containerised application stack, AWS-native content delivery, infrastructure as code, and operational tooling that supports day-to-day platform work.
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Application containerisation.
Dockerised .NET applications and deployed them on AWS Fargate for elastic capacity.
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Serverless computing.
Used AWS Fargate for automatic scaling, removing day-to-day server management.
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Content storage and delivery.
Amazon S3 for storage and CloudFront for fast, reliable content delivery to classrooms.
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Managed database.
Moved to Amazon RDS, lifting database performance and scalability.
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Infrastructure as code.
Implemented with AWS CloudFormation so updates are consistent and reviewable.
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Automated CI/CD pipeline.
Enabled faster, reliable releases of educational content without manual hand-offs.
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Security baseline.
Data encryption, fine-grained access controls, and AWS WAF for the web tier.
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Monitoring and analytics.
CloudWatch and analytics tooling for insight into user engagement and platform health.
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Disaster recovery.
A recovery strategy that keeps the platform available through expected failure modes.
Outcomes
Measurable improvements across the platform.
Outcomes reflect operational improvements observed during the engagement period. Results depend on baseline architecture, team process, and workload profile.
i. Scalability
Outcome 01
Scales with growing classroom demand.
The platform now scales automatically to support educators and students as usage rises.
ii. Delivery
Outcome 02
Faster, more reliable content delivery.
CloudFront sped up content delivery and improved the experience for end users.
iii. Cost
Outcome 03
Improved cost profile.
A serverless architecture and more efficient resource use improved the platform's cost story.
iv. Security
Outcome 04
Stronger data protection.
AWS best practices and tooling improved readiness for applicable data-protection requirements.
v. Future
Outcome 05
Cloud-native foundation for future growth.
The scalable, cloud-native platform supports continued innovation and growth in EdTech.
Next step
Empower Your Digital Learning Platform.
For organisations with similar delivery and scale goals in EdTech, we can walk through what we would change and why, based on your current platform.