County of Greene
Ohio, USA
Champion since 2023
County of Greene in Ohio is a suburban county with a population of 170,000 situated between Dayton and Columbus and home to Wright Patterson AFB, the largest single site employer in the state of Ohio. The county IT department provides IT and voice/data services to all county departments. They have a staff of 12, including two SQL database administrators due to retire in 2024.
County of Greene is moving forward with a phased approach to migrating their entire IT infrastructure from on premises VMWare to the AWS Cloud. Future staff issues are a major driving force, as is availability, durability, and resilience. The county has completed a detailed OLA with eCloud Services and has mapped out a two-year migration plan. The initial effort is to deploy a SD-WAN, use AWS Marketplace partner OpenVPN for a connectivity solution, and migrate their DMZ & Domain Controllers to Amazon EC2.
What is the AWS State and Local Government Champions Program?
The AWS State and Local Government Champions program recognizes, celebrates, and supports organizations driving digital transformation with cloud computing. The purpose of the program is to acknowledge customers that have used AWS products and services in innovative ways to improve the service to their communities. The organizations selected to receive this award share the mission to transform and advance state and local government to better serve their constituents. This community will provide relatable stories for other state and local government customers to reference as they think about their own digital transformation journey.