Epic on AWS
Epic customers can leverage AWS services to upgrade their security posture, provide elasticity to scale on-demand, improve disaster recovery and business continuity, and increase operational performance system wide. By migrating Epic workloads to AWS, organizations can focus less on data center management and more on improving the quality of care and outcomes for the patients and communities they serve.
Benefits of deploying Epic on AWS
Migrating Epic workloads to the cloud enables customers to focus on improving care quality and outcomes for the patients and communities they serve by utilizing the complementary AWS services that enhance clinician, patient, and employee experiences.
AWS customers can reduce their operating costs by auto-scaling infrastructure resources based upon demand rather than designing and running for peak demand at all times, removing the guesswork of over-or under-provisioning infrastructure.
AWS works closely with Epic to validate and continue to optimize Epic environments on AWS to strive for the best customer experience with unprecedented levels of scalability, reliability, and agility.
Leveraging the elasticity of AWS accommodates changing user demands with little to no downtime without the lock-in of traditional on-premises infrastructure. Customers can reduce unplanned downtime using automation and orchestration to manage workloads.
Epic quarterly releases can be deployed faster, and infrastructure can be easily right sized for yearly growth. Traditional IT tasks can be automated by 50% to free up resources to focus on differentiating activities.
Organizations deploying Epic on AWS
Discover how Piedmont Healthcare and Deloitte developed an Epic on AWS proof of concept for migrating its Epic training workloads to the cloud in 6 weeks, saving almost 50% of its annual costs.
"Choosing AWS enabled us to work alongside highly skilled individuals to rapidly move our migration forward.”
Geoff Brown
Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Piedmont Healthcare
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Deploying Epic on AWS
Healthcare organizations typically explore Epic workloads on AWS as part of one of two journeys: a complete greenfield all-in solution for those just implementing Epic, or an incremental approach for existing customers that provides a roadmap to migrate any or all components as a hybrid design where parts reside in either on-prem or co-located facilities and the rest is in the AWS Cloud.
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Epic customers usually encounter three use cases when they migrate to the cloud:
- Test/dev/training environments on AWS — this use case allows customers to quickly scale up and down as needed to support organizational needs without duplication of hardware investments.
- Disaster recovery environments — this use case enables customers to quickly scale up during a disaster to meet demand and scale down to keep costs low.
- All-in Epic design —this approach can be structured to provide single or multi-region protection.
All of these designs build upon each other to achieve high availability and business continuity. Your AWS account team, working with your Epic Technical Coordinator (TC), can help you decide the best options and scenarios that right-size deployments to your needs and requirements.
The Epic on AWS architecture can be designed as single region, multi-availability zone workloads, or as multi-region, multi-availability zone designs to best meet the needs of your organization’s practice. This approach provides a predictable and operationally supported method of moving this critical resource to the cloud with minimal impact and risk.
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Watch to learn how Epic on AWS can help you lower your total cost of ownership, improve your security posture, scale on demand, improve disaster recovery, and increase operational performance system-wide.
Download the solution brief to for a quick synopsis on the services, benefits, and partners associated with the Epic on AWS solution.
Watch Geoff Brown, CIO, Piedmont and Eric Foote, Managing Director, Deloitte discuss why Piedmont Healthcare trusts AWS and Deloitte to migrate their Epic workloads to the cloud, best practices gleaned during the deployment, and cost savings realized.
Discover how Piedmont Healthcare and Deloitte developed an Epic on AWS proof of concept for migrating its Epic training workloads to the cloud in 6 weeks, saving almost 50% of its annual costs.
Download this whitepaper to better understand how to leverage the clinical data in your Electronic Health Record system using AWS services to transform your clinician, patient, and employee experiences.
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