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Overcoming Cloud Migration Roadblocks with Adastra and the AWS EBA Program
January 15, 2026
Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA): Streamlining Cloud Adoption
Cloud promises scale and speed, but actually getting there can be tough—even with strong leadership and a solid strategy. AWS’s Experience-Based Acceleration (EBA) turns planning into action through collaborative, hands-on sprints. Partnering with AWS, Adastra leads EBA programs like the Migration Party to simplify migration, upskill your teams, and get you leveraging cloud benefits faster.
EBA in Action: Adastra and CBI Health’s Cloud Migration Treatment Plan
Diagnosing CBI Health’s Infrastructure Challenges
CBI Health, Canada’s premier community healthcare provider, delivers rehabilitation programs in over 250 locations across Canada. They faced the challenge of managing a vast operation on outdated on-premises VMware infrastructure. High maintenance costs and the constant need for dedicated monitoring and management resources were diverting critical attention away from their core mission. Their legacy infrastructure was a roadblock to modernization efforts.
Recognizing the limitations of their expertise in navigating the complexities of cloud migration, CBI Health needed leadership and a reliable partner to guide this transition. The organization sought a solution that not only addressed their current infrastructure challenges but also equipped them to scale and adapt to future healthcare demands. They needed to establish a centralized data lake and data warehouse architecture to enable new BI reporting and AI/ML workloads. The goal was to allow for data-driven operational processes.
Adding to the urgency was a tight timeline: CBI Health needed to quickly migrate away from their outdated data center to a more flexible and scalable infrastructure. They also wanted to avoid further operational disruptions and to stay competitive in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry. This set the stage for a strategic partnership aimed at reinventing CBI Health’s technological backbone, ensuring they could continue to deliver exceptional care with greater efficiency and resilience.
Prescribing a Cloud Migration: Adastra and AWS Join CBI Health
Figure 1: Timeline of the migration process.
CBI Health chose Adastra, Canada’s first EBA-certified AWS partner, for a lift-and-shift migration using the AWS Migration Framework. After assessment, the Mobilize phase began with EBA onboarding, an AWS Control Tower landing zone, and data center-to-AWS connectivity; with the architecture approved, we executed wave-based migrations using AWS Application Migration Service. An EBA team (including a CIO, project manager, application, security, and migration specialists) worked backward from the desired end state to define skills, architecture, and training, remove blockers, and align stakeholders. The lift-and-shift approach delivered speed and minimal disruption, reduced risk and cost, avoided end-user retraining, and, over two EBA sessions, migrated more than 100 servers to AWS.
Figure 2: High-level network design overview for the AWS Cloud migration.
Adastra’s solution took advantage of the following services:
- AWS Application Migration Service: Automated, tested, and monitored server migrations with minimal disruption.
- AWS Control Tower: Set up the CBI Health landing zone in hours, configuring accounts, logging, guardrails, and directory integration in a single session.
- AWS Systems Manager: Automated Windows patching to keep servers up to date while reducing manual overhead.
- AWS Direct Connect and AWS Transit Gateway: Delivered consistent, high-throughput connectivity and simplified VPC interconnections.
- Amazon S3: Provided a scalable, high-performance, cost-effective backup solution.
- Amazon EC2: Migrated select Windows workloads with license flexibility and cost-efficient EBS-backed performance.
- AWS Key Management Service (KMS): Centralized encryption across accounts and services to meet compliance while reducing cost and operational overhead.
Seeing the Results: CBI Health’s Symptoms Improve with Cloud Integration
Through the EBA process and the ability to quickly resolve blockers, the project was delivered 20% earlier than projected and resulted in tangible lessons to improve internal processes for future modernization efforts. Rather than spreading each wave over several weeks, the team executed the core cutovers in single-day EBA sprint sessions, resolving blockers in real time.
The collaboration was a resounding success, achieving significant milestones for Adastra and CBI Health:
- Migration of over 100 servers in just 100 days
- Transfer of more than 70 TB of data to the AWS Cloud
- 20% cost savings on compute and storage resources
- Enhanced security posture through AWS-native services
- Improved scalability and reliability of systems
- Access to AWS’s innovation ecosystem and thought leadership
- Foundation laid for future modernization, including AI/ML workloads
“Adastra’s close collaboration with our operations, applications, and security teams was pivotal in architecting the optimal solution. Migrating over 100 servers to AWS in under 100 days was a remarkable achievement. Now fully hosted on the AWS Cloud, we’ve migrated more than 70 terabytes of data, unlocking significant cost savings and operational efficiencies.” – Mark Segal, Chief Information Officer, CBI Health
Empowering Your Cloud Journey: Get Started with EBA, AWS and Adastra
EBA shows how AWS and Adastra work together to help customers, offering a clear, flexible path to the cloud. CBI Health is one of many examples of what’s possible with the right partners and a proven approach like EBA.
Facing a project with a tight deadline or lacking the confidence to execute a large-scale migration? The EBA methodology could be your solution. It’s especially useful for navigating the intricacies of generative AI, offering a clear, step-by-step process to demystify its workings and decision-making, setting clear goals along the way.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to transform your digital landscape. Contact Adastra today to start your EBA journey, seamlessly transitioning your digital assets to AWS and lowering total cost of ownership (TCO).
