Tornatech saves 29% on compute by modernizing on AWS with Unicorne

Tornatech’s technology environment supports a global manufacturing organization that plays a critical role in fire protection systems around the world. Having already migrated some workloads to AWS, the company wanted to build a future-ready cloud foundation to support productivity, strengthen disaster recovery capabilities, and continue optimizing infrastructure costs. These were not isolated technology projects, but interconnected elements of a broader modernization strategy. The company wanted to use enterprise AI agents to improve productivity across the organization, but it needed an architecture capable of securely deploying and managing these agents at scale. Additionally, as its operations and international footprint grew, a formal disaster recovery strategy became essential to strengthen resilience and reduce operational risk. And as AWS adoption expanded, Tornatech needed to optimize compute spending without limiting its ability to modernize and scale.

Modernizing a critical global manufacturing environment required careful planning to maintain resilience and service availability during the modernization. To achieve this, Tornatech engaged Unicorne, a Quebec-based AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner specializing in migration and modernization, AI, security, managed services, and cloud cost optimization. Named the 2025 AWS Canada Rising Star Consulting Partner of the Year, Unicorne brought the breadth of expertise that Tornatech needed to bring together these initiatives into a cohesive modernization program.

Unicorne designed and deployed enterprise AI agents using Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a solution for production AI agents. Using Claude by Anthropic in Amazon Bedrock to build generative AI solutions with Anthropic’s state-of-the-art model, the solution makes generative AI available across Tornatech to automate tasks, access information more efficiently, and improve productivity. These agents serve employees throughout the organization, providing intelligent assistance for day-to-day operations and reducing the time spent on routine information retrieval and document processing. To extend AI capabilities into document-heavy workflows, Unicorne incorporated Amazon Textract for automatically extracting printed text, handwriting, layout elements, and data from documents. The Partner also implemented Amazon Comprehend to derive and understand valuable insights from text and Amazon Translate for fluent and accurate machine translation. Together, these services automate workflows that previously required significant manual effort across Tornatech’s international operations.

To create a more scalable and manageable application environment, Unicorne migrated to workloads from traditional infrastructure to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS), a fully managed container orchestration service. The broader compute environment runs on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), a cloud computing service. Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) provides simple-to-manage relational databases, and Amazon DynamoDB offers serverless, fully managed, distributed NoSQL databases to support Tornatech’s workloads. Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC) provides a logically isolated virtual network and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) distributes network traffic to improve application scalability, while Amazon Route 53—a Domain Name System service—handles routing. The security layer employs AWS WAF to protect web applications, Amazon GuardDuty for intelligent threat detection, and Amazon Inspector for automated and continual vulnerability management at scale.

As part of the engagement, Unicorne also developed a formal disaster recovery strategy to strengthen business continuity and improve Tornatech’s ability to recover critical workloads following a disruption. And to optimize costs, Unicorne implemented AWS Compute and EC2 Instance Savings Plans—a flexible pricing model that offers discounts on compute in exchange for a usage commitment—reaching 100 percent usage of committed capacity.

Tornatech’s cloud modernization supports scalability and operational agility while accelerating innovation. The company now operates with a more resilient AWS environment, experiencing improved service availability and fewer operational technology issues compared with its previous on-premises infrastructure. The formal disaster recovery strategy strengthens business continuity, giving the company confidence in its ability to recover critical workloads following any disruption. Enterprise AI agents, powered by Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, are now deployed across the organization, improving employee productivity by automating routine tasks and providing intelligent access to information. Meanwhile, AI-powered document processing reduces manual effort across extraction, analysis, and translation workflows that span Tornatech’s international operations.

Importantly, the AWS Compute Savings Plan delivered approximately 29 percent savings on covered compute costs compared with On-Demand pricing, translating to approximately US$1,011 in monthly savings and approximately US$12,133 in annual compute cost savings. Monthly AWS spending stabilized, providing the predictability needed for long-term planning. “Tornatech is realizing value from AWS on several fronts at once, and the impact goes beyond infrastructure costs,” says David Lamarre, director of IT at Tornatech. “The company now has a more resilient technology foundation, fewer operational issues, and a clear disaster recovery strategy. Tornatech has moved beyond simply running workloads in the cloud and has created a platform for continued modernization, automation, and enterprise-wide innovation.”

Unicorne is a Quebec-based AWS Advanced Tier Services Partner specializing in modernization, AI, security, and more.