Case Study: AfterShip achieves rapid, cost-effective scaling with Amazon Web Services

AfterShip - Customer Case Study

AfterShip, a Hong Kong–based provider of automated shipment tracking that supports 400+ carriers and handles over 30 million packages a month (with more than a billion API requests monthly), needed a way to scale reliably and cut deployment time to support rapid business growth and rising peak traffic.

By running API services on Amazon EC2 Spot Instances and using Amazon ElastiCache, AfterShip gained easy scalability and faster deployments, enabling 100% year‑on‑year growth, reducing software deployment from days to hours, cutting compute costs by 50%, supporting a 500% increase in peak shipment requests, and maintaining at least 99.95% availability.

AfterShip

Teddy Chan

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Technology Office