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Jamaica Public Service , the sole distributor of electricity in Jamaica , has migrated efficiently to the cloud , reducing costs by 40 % using AWS Instance Scheduler .
Jamaica Public Service migr to the cloud with AWS
Sirmione – Jamaica beach
Electric utility company Jamaica Public Service ( JPS ) generates and distributes electricity to more than 680,000 customers . The company focuses on continuing to grow and innovate while it is expanding digital channels . Its most recent effort to improve its customers ’ digital experience involved building the MyJPS Mobile and Web Application .
JPS chose to use Amazon Web Services ( AWS ) for its elasticity , scalability and economies of scale , which the company used to build out improvements for its customers at a fraction of the cost of its onpremises solution .
Since then , the electricity distributor has continued to benefit from a suite of AWS services , including an AWS Solution called AWS Instance Scheduler , which helps businesses control their AWS resource costs by configuring start and stop schedules for AWS services .
On AWS , JPS can automatically toggle its web and mobile portals and other mission-critical applications on and off to drastically reduce its cloud costs .
Migrating mission-critical applications to the cloud
JPS is an integrated electric utility company and the sole distributor of electricity in Jamaica , operating power stations , hydroelectric plants and thousands of kilometers of power lines .
The company wanted to create a complete web-based and mobile solution that would offer customers an
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