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How Amazon Web Services and Lemongrass help Florida Crystals achieve their business and sustainability goals
Anybody with a sweet tooth has probably heard of brands like Domino and C&H in the U.S., Redpath in Canada, Tate & Lyle in the U.K., and Sidul in Portugal. All of these sugary packaged goods are made by the
Besides being a top producer of cane sugar, Florida Crystals has earned a reputation as a pioneer in sustainability. “We’re the first U.S. brand to earn a distinctive regenerative organic status, using a process that improves the soil and the environment around it,” says Kevin Grayling, CIO at Florida Crystals. The company now has the distinction of owning the largest Regenerative Organic Certified™ (ROC) farm in the U.S. and being the first U.S.-grown sugar brand to earn the distinctive ROC™ status.
When consumers buy products from Florida Crystals, they can be sure their purchase makes a positive impact at every level: environmentally, ethically, and socially. What’s more, the packaged goods company has embraced sustainability in more than just its agricultural practices. For example, it recently had the opportunity to migrate its SAP enterprise resource planning systems from an on-premises data center to Amazon Web Services (Amazon Web Services), a move that enabled it to shrink its carbon footprint while saving money.
“We always strive to be environmentally and socially conscious in our business decisions and moving from a hosted private cloud to the public cloud is consistent with this approach,” Grayling explains. “Amazon Web Services’ profile for sustainability made it the perfect partner. These savings can be diverted to fund projects and innovation that benefit our customers, employees, and partners as well as the world we live in through our regenerative farming practices.”
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Beginning in May 2021, Lemongrass worked with Florida Crystals to design and build a targeted environment and
Lemongrass also set up monitoring, backups, and disaster recovery for Florida Crystals on Amazon Web Services using its well-defined migration methodology. To support these capabilities, the company is now using multiple Amazon Web Services services, including:
Once SAP was up and running on Amazon Web Services, the company was then able to consolidate its two other SAP environments, resulting in a single global instance. “Over the last 12 months, we have not only migrated away from our incumbent provider but we’ve consolidated those three environments into one,” Grayling says.
The move to Amazon Web Services gave Florida Crystals other advantages, such as the ability to provide additional resource capacity and systems to support new business projects when needed. The company can also react more quickly to situations in its production environment, allowing the business to continue with minimal downtime. “In the end, this is what is important because we’re able to achieve our service excellence goals to our end customers,” Swenson says.
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