JoAcademy — Modernizing the Largest LMS in Jordan with AWS

Customer Overview

JoAcademy is the leading Learning Management System (LMS) in Jordan, serving over 2 million students across the country. The platform delivers interactive online courses, live streaming sessions, and recorded content for secondary and university students — demanding high availability, scalability, and secure data management.

Challenge

As JoAcademy’s user base grew exponentially, their on-premises and legacy hosting infrastructure faced several challenges:

• Frequent downtime during exam periods and peak traffic surges.
• Limited scalability, requiring manual intervention to handle growth.
• High operational costs and inefficient resource utilization.
• Lack of flexibility to innovate and release new features quickly.

JoAcademy needed a scalable, cost-efficient, and modern platform to handle millions of concurrent users while maintaining performance and security.

Solution by SlashTEC

SlashTEC, an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner specializing in DevOps and cloud transformation, led the migration and modernization journey of JoAcademy to AWS using a phased, well-architected approach.

1. Assessment & Planning

• Conducted a comprehensive Migration Readiness Assessment (MRA) and workload inventory.
• Designed a Landing Zone aligned with AWS best practices for governance, security, and account structure.
• Selected initial workloads for migration based on performance, interdependencies, and modernization potential.

2. Migration & Modernization Execution

• Compute Modernization: Re-architected JoAcademy’s monolithic applications into containerized microservices deployed on Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with auto-scaling and CI/CD automation.
• Database Modernization: Migrated from a traditional MySQL database to Amazon Aurora Serverless, enabling automatic scaling and significant cost savings.
• Storage & Backup: Centralized storage using Amazon S3 with lifecycle policies and integrated AWS Backup for RPO/RTO compliance.
• Observability & Security: Implemented AWS CloudWatch, AWS WAF, and AWS GuardDuty for monitoring and threat detection across all workloads.

3. Tooling & Automation

• Introduced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Terraform and Helm, enabling repeatable, version-controlled deployments.
• Automated CI/CD pipelines through AWS CodePipeline integrated with SlashTEC’s DevOps framework.
• Established Blue/Green deployment strategy for zero-downtime releases.

Outcomes

✅ 99.99% Uptime: Platform stability dramatically improved, even during national exam peaks.

✅ 75% Faster Deployments: New features and updates now reach students in hours instead of days.

✅ 60% Cost Optimization: Aurora Serverless and EKS auto-scaling optimized infrastructure spend.

✅ Improved Security & Compliance: Centralized IAM, logging, and backup policies aligned with AWS Well-Architected Framework.

✅ Modern DevOps Culture: Continuous delivery and automation embedded into JoAcademy’s engineering practices.

Lessons Learned

• Start small with pilot workloads to validate modernization patterns before scaling.
• Aurora Serverless provides excellent elasticity for unpredictable traffic.
• EKS with managed node groups simplifies scalability while maintaining flexibility.
• DevOps automation ensures consistency and reduces human error in large-scale education systems.

Conclusion

Through SlashTEC’s expertise in AWS Migration and Modernization, JoAcademy successfully transitioned from a legacy hosting model to a fully modernized, cloud-native architecture on AWS. The transformation not only improved scalability and performance but also laid the foundation for continuous innovation — empowering JoAcademy to deliver seamless digital education experiences to millions of students.

About SlashTEC

SlashTEC is an AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with deep expertise in DevOps, CloudOps, and Cloud Migration. With proven success across media, education, and SaaS sectors, SlashTEC helps organizations in the Middle East modernize their workloads and achieve operational excellence through automation, observability, and AWS best practices.