This article discusses how the Wawanesa Mutual Insurance Company migrated their on-premises Guidewire Insurance Suite to the Guidewire Cloud Platform (GWCP) on AWS. It covers their challenges, the solution architecture, key considerations, and business outcomes.

Specifically, the article covers:

• Prior state and challenges Wawanesa faced with their on-premises Guidewire solution
• Solution options considered for replicating data from GWCP to Wawanesa's AWS environment
• The migration process from on-premises to GWCP and replicating data using AWS Database Migration Service
• Key considerations like network optimization, operational processes, Amazon Aurora tuning, and developing a migration runbook
• Business outcomes achieved, including successful migration and enabling revamped member experience