Client Background
A leading EdTech provider set out to serve 12M+ students, including those in remote and low-bandwidth regions.
Challenge: Achieving Massive Scale & High Performance
The company needed a platform that was:
- Highly available with near-zero downtime.
- Cost-effective despite large-scale workloads.
- Capable of handling peak concurrent usage without failure.
Solution: Cloud-Native, AWS-Powered Platform
- Built entirely on AWS with a microservices architecture.
- Leveraged containers (ECS) and serverless compute (Lambda).
- Used S3 + CloudFront for global content delivery.
- Ensured maximum scalability, cost efficiency, and developer velocity.
Managed Services Engagement
With a lean engineering team, the provider adopted a specialized DevOps & FinOps managed services model that included:
- Automated CI/CD pipelines.
- Container performance optimization.
- Cloud cost governance for spend control at scale.
- Advanced security monitoring.
This allowed the internal team to focus entirely on new feature development.
Key Outcome
- 12M+ students served worldwide.
- 99.99% uptime during workload peaks.
- A modern, scalable tech stack ready for future expansion.