Case Study: 9GAG achieves improved reliability, faster performance, and scalable growth with Amazon Web Services

9GAG - Customer Case Study

9GAG, a Hong Kong–based entertainment site with tens of millions of monthly visitors and over a billion page views per month, relied on a lean nine‑person team to run the service. After three outages in quick succession, the company needed higher availability, better online backups, and an easier way to scale for rising uploads and traffic.

9GAG migrated to AWS, using EC2, RDS, S3, CloudFront, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, EMR, and other services to run web/app servers, caching, storage, analytics, and delivery. The move improved reliability and security, cut server response times by about 20% and network latency by 10–20%, shortened release cycles by 1.5 days, and allowed the site to absorb 1.5 million new users in two months while supporting projected 10–20× growth and strong ROI.

9GAG

Derek Chan

Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer