Case Study: Creative Market achieves 95% storage-cost savings and reliable, zero‑ops file storage with Amazon Web Services (Amazon EFS)

20,000 Creative Market Shops Turn Passion into Opportunity Using AWS

Creative Market, an online marketplace supporting 20,000 creator-run shops, faced an urgent storage challenge: their previous Gluster-based file system was unreliable, costly, and required constant operational attention, limiting development workflows and constraining upload sizes for sellers.

By migrating to AWS with Amazon EFS, Creative Market gained reliable, auto-scaling file storage that eliminated operational time on storage, freed specialists to do higher-value work, and simplified development and staging. The move cut storage costs by about 95% annually, improved engineer productivity and morale, and enabled plans to raise upload limits from 1 GB to 100 GB—giving shop owners greater peace of mind.

Creative Market

Chris Williams

CTO & Co-Founder