Intuit has operated a data center located outside Quincy, Washington for their cloud-based applications. Previously then migrated some applications to Amazon Web Services (AWS), and they have now decided to migrate all of their remaining cloud/server-based products to AWS.
Intuit's former Quincy Data Center
The facility, shown in an aerial photograph here is located on 60+ acres outside of the community of Quincy which is about 100 miles east of Seattle, Washington. Several other high-tech companies including Microsoft, Dell, and Yahoo also have data-centers located within an industrial area just outside of the community.
Intuit is in the process of selling the data center to H5 Data Centers which operates several data centers around the country including Denver, Cleveland, Phoenix, Cincinnati, and seven more locations.
Intuit's Turbotax Online was operated 100% this past tax season via AWS. Following the success with TurboTax Intui moved 33 applications, 26 services and 8 enabling tools to the AWS Cloud.
Intuit selected AWS for cloud-servicing of their data center requirements in part because of Amazon Web Services ability to accommodate major customer usage spikes. H. Tayloe Standsbury, Intuit's Executive Vice President and Chief Technlogy Officer said, in announcing the transition, "We (Intuit) chose to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate developer productivity and innovation for our customers, and to accommodate spikes in customer usage through the tax season."
Intuit has been phasing in the transition of QuickBooks Online, and it is anticipated that QBO will be fully AWS supported by year's end.