The Army migrated one of the world’s largest financial systems to the cloud

guest · Aug 3, 2020

The Army migrated one of the world’s largest financial systems to the cloud 7 months ahead of schedule
August 3, 2020
https://www.fedscoop.com/army-cloud-gfebs-migration/

The Army’s enterprise financial management system — which handles $164 billion in yearly transactions — has now fully migrated to the cloud, seven months ahead of schedule, the service says.
The military’s largest department forecasts a flat or even declining budget in the years ahead and is working to save time and money where it can, especially in modernizing back-end systems.

The effort to get the General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) on Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud servers didn’t happen overnight, but the ahead-of-schedule speed is in part due to assistance from other parts of the military, the Army says. [...] news release.
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The GFEBS was a priority for migration due to its size and reach across 35,000 users in the Army in 71 different countries. The system has also been used by other services, like for managing some of the Navy’s health care resources.

“This modernization effort will improve the user experience, improve reliability and disaster recovery,” Burton says.
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Cloud migration modernizes Army’s financial enterprise

The Army’s latest cloud migration launched this month, as the force’s financial enterprise system moved over 30 terabytes of data from outdated storage centers to a modern cloud environment seven months ahead of schedule, said the program’s top officer.

The Army’s General Fund Enterprise Business System, or GFEBS, migrating to the cloud is the “first and largest effort of its kind to date,” said Col. Donald Burton, its project manager on Thursday. “[GFEBS] pioneered its way to being the force’s first fully cloud-computing financial system, and will be followed by the Army’s logistics software platforms.”
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