Case Study: TIBCO cuts EC2 footprint 40% and speeds deployments with Amazon ECS and Amazon SES

TIBCO Uses AWS to Cut Deployment Times, Reduce Server Footprint by 40%

TIBCO’s Simplr service helps nontechnical users connect SaaS applications but had grown complex and costly running microservices on Amazon EC2 clusters. To simplify operations, speed development, and cut infrastructure costs, TIBCO turned to AWS—adopting containerization (Docker) and Amazon ECS while also using AWS services such as Amazon ECR, Application Load Balancer, S3, Lambda, and Amazon SES for email distribution.

TIBCO migrated its VM-based connectors into Docker containers managed by Amazon ECS, standardizing deployments and using ALB path-based routing, Auto Scaling lifecycle hooks, and Amazon ECR for image management; it also uses Amazon SES to send customer emails. The move reduced Amazon EC2 instances by 40%, cut cluster count from seven to two, slashed patch deployment time from ~5 minutes to under one minute (often seconds), and reduced scale-out time by about 97%, delivering faster updates and simpler operations.

TIBCO

Mike Slavin

Principal Architect