Cloud infrastructure for EdTech and learning platforms
Keep classes, exams and results online on the days that matter, keep course videos and notes in object storage, and protect learners' data, including children's, in India.
In short
What does Neon Cloud offer EdTech companies and institutions?
Neon Cloud hosts learning management systems, online exam platforms and learning apps on load-balanced virtual machines or managed Kubernetes, with S3-compatible object storage for lecture videos, notes and question banks. Capacity is planned ahead of admission and exam seasons and billed pro rata when you add or remove it, every VM includes 5 TB of internet transfer a month pooled across your VMs, and learners' data stays in India.
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- Best for
- EdTech companies, universities, schools and coaching institutes, test-prep platforms and online exam providers.
- Typical setup
- LMS web servers behind a load balancer, a database on NVMe volumes and course content in object storage.
- Where your data lives
- In India, in our Delhi NCR region. Backups stay in India too.
- How it's billed
- In rupees, a fixed monthly price per resource, excluding GST.
- Security assurance
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited.
- Support and uptime
- 24/7 support and a 99.95% uptime SLA on the Essential and Premium plans (99.9% on Starter).
The challenge
What do learning platforms need from a cloud?
Education traffic follows the academic calendar, and so should the infrastructure.
Peaks you can see coming
Admissions, exam days and results put much of the year's load into a few days. Capacity has to be in place before them.
Content that keeps growing
Recorded lectures, notes and question banks pile up every term, and learners expect them to open quickly.
Children's data handled with care
The DPDP Act asks for verifiable parental consent before processing a child's personal data, and bars tracking and targeted advertising aimed at children.
Budgets set a year ahead
Institutions plan budgets annually, so a cloud bill in dollars that changes every month is hard to approve.
How Neon Cloud fits
Which Neon Cloud services fit learning platforms?
Everything an LMS, an exam platform or a learning app needs, on one bill in rupees.
Load balancers
Spread learners across LMS and exam servers, with health checks that take a failed server out of rotation.
Virtual machines
CPU-optimized VMs for web and exam servers and memory-optimized VMs for databases, on Linux or Windows.
Managed Kubernetes
Run learning apps and live-class backends on Neon Kubernetes Engine, with node pools that scale with demand.
Object storage
S3-compatible storage for lecture videos, notes and submissions, with lifecycle rules to clear out old terms.
Security
Security groups, IAM with roles, always-on L3/L4 DDoS protection, and a dedicated firewall for exam environments.
Cloud GPUs
GPUs for AI tutors, automated feedback and grading models, quoted on request for the GPU you need.
Reference architecture
What does a typical EdTech setup look like?
Learners reach the LMS through a load balancer; web and exam servers run in a private network, with the database on NVMe volumes and course content in object storage.
Plan the calendar
Share your academic calendar and last year's peak. We plan capacity for admission, exam and results days.
Load-test
Test the LMS and the exam flow at peak load in a staging VPC before the term starts.
Move between terms
Migrate in a quiet week or over a weekend, with the old platform kept on standby.
Scale for each peak
Add servers or nodes before an exam and remove them afterwards; billing is prorated.
Security and compliance
How does Neon Cloud help protect learners' data?
Learner records, assessments and payments are personal data, and many learners are children.
- Learner data and backups stay in India.
- Access by role with multi-factor sign-in for staff and administrators, and an audit log of every change.
- Encryption at rest with AES-256 and in transit with TLS 1.3.
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified and SOC 2 Type II audited, which helps with school and university vendor reviews.
- A data processing agreement is available on request.
Under the DPDP Act your institution or company is the data fiduciary: parental consent, notices and how learner data is used are yours to decide. Neon Cloud processes the data you host on your behalf.
Use cases
What do education teams run on Neon Cloud?
From a single institution's LMS to national test-prep platforms.
Learning management systems
Moodle or your own LMS on load-balanced VMs, with the database on NVMe volumes.
Online exams and assessments
Timed tests and result processing on capacity added before exam day and removed after.
Recorded lectures and course libraries
Videos, notes and question banks in object storage, served by your app or a CDN of your choice.
Live classes
Backends for live classes and doubt-solving sessions on Kubernetes, close to the learner database.
Admission and fee portals
Application, admission and fee-payment portals sized for the last day before the deadline.
AI tutors and grading
Models for practice questions, feedback and grading on cloud GPUs, quoted on request.
Trusted by businesses that run on Neon Cloud
- Yes, with planning. Before the exam, add LMS or exam servers behind the load balancer or nodes to a Kubernetes node pool, and remove them afterwards; billing is prorated when you change resources. Share your exam calendar and we'll help plan capacity.
- Yes. Moodle and other learning management systems run on Linux VMs, with the database on NVMe block storage and course files on a shared file system or in object storage. Run it yourself, or have our managed services look after the servers.
- Neon Cloud stores videos in S3-compatible object storage, and your app or player streams them from there. For very large audiences, put the CDN of your choice in front, with object storage as its origin. Transfer allowances and rates are on the pricing page.
- The DPDP Act treats anyone under 18 as a child: you need verifiable parental consent before processing their personal data, and you can't track, behaviourally monitor or target advertising at them. Neon Cloud keeps the data in India and provides access and encryption controls; consent flows and product design are yours to build.
- In India. Neon Cloud runs in a data centre colocated in a Tier III facility in Delhi NCR (Noida), and your data, including backups, stays in India unless you move it.
- Prices are fixed per resource per month in rupees, so you can budget a year ahead from your expected setup and add exam-day capacity as a known extra. Customers typically pay 30–40% less than on the hyperscalers.
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Get ready for your next exam season
Share your academic calendar and last year's peak. We'll plan capacity and show you the monthly cost in rupees.