Managed Moodle and OpenLMS hosting on AWS.
Run Moodle or OpenLMS on AWS without managing servers. We deploy, customise and look after your LMS, with patches, upgrades and scaling handled, so your team can focus on courses and learners.
Moodle and OpenLMS, hosted on AWS
We deploy, host, and customise two world-class open-source platforms on AWS, tailored to your institution's exact requirements.
What you get
Benefits of running your LMS on AWS
Why host Moodle on AWS
Many educational institutions struggle with outdated infrastructure that can't keep up with growing demands. Cloud hosting solves this.
Customisation & automation
At CloudZA, we design and tailor both OpenLMS and Moodle environments to suit your institution's unique needs. From customising the user interface to aligning backend configurations, we ensure your LMS perfectly reflects your vision.
Our automated deployment services simplify the process of getting your LMS up and running in the cloud. With just a few clicks, have your fully customised environment deployed, optimised, and ready for use, backed by CloudZA engineers every step of the way.
Moodle migrations we’ve delivered.
Moodle hosting, answered.
Can you move our existing Moodle site, or do we need to start again?
Either works. Both LMS case studies on this page were existing Moodle environments moved off on-premise infrastructure onto AWS: BizzCo from a shared server in a data centre, and Stellenbosch Business School from hosting that could not meet its scale and data residency needs. If you're starting fresh, the same working session maps out your setup.
Can our learner data stay in South Africa?
Yes. Your LMS can run in the AWS Africa (Cape Town) Region, af-south-1. Stellenbosch Business School's Moodle platform serves 2000+ students from af-south-1, and its POPIA compliance is met through that local data residency.
Should we choose Moodle or OpenLMS?
Moodle is the open-source platform, fully customisable to your learning environment. Open LMS builds on open-source Moodle with commercial hosting and support, and adds ecosystem tools, in-depth reporting, in-app authoring and compliance training. We deploy, host and customise both on AWS, and the working session is where you weigh which fits your institution.
Who looks after patches and upgrades?
We do. Patches and upgrades are handled for you, so your LMS stays on the latest version without manual effort from your team.
How does a cloud LMS cope with enrolment peaks and load shedding?
Compute scales with demand instead of being fixed to one server. BizzCo's Moodle now scales compute to meet enrolment peaks, and moving off on-premise hardware ended its load-shedding disruptions.
Can the LMS look and work the way our institution does?
Yes. We tailor Moodle and OpenLMS environments to your institution, from the user interface to backend configuration.
What does the AWS setup look like?
It follows your scale and availability needs. BizzCo runs Moodle on Amazon EC2 with Amazon RDS, inside a VPC on a Well-Architected Landing Zone, with backups to Amazon S3. Stellenbosch Business School, which needs 24/7 high availability, adds a load balancer, Amazon CloudFront, FSx for Lustre for shared files, Aurora PostgreSQL, ElastiCache and a CI/CD pipeline.
How do we get started?
Choose Talk to CloudZA and pick Cloud-Based LMS on the contact form. We'll book a working session and map out the right setup for your institution, whether you're migrating an existing Moodle install or starting fresh.
Get your institution learning in the cloud.
Whether you're migrating an existing Moodle install or starting fresh, book a working session and we'll map out the right setup for your institution.
