Case Study: Assignar achieves rapid scaling, near‑instant client onboarding, and 99.999% availability with Amazon Web Services

Assignar - Customer Case Study

Assignar, founded in 2014, provides a mobile app and dashboard that help companies in construction, mining, road and rail, and oil and gas manage assets, compliance, and remote workforces. To commercialize the product the startup had to leave its on‑premises infrastructure—which suffered regular outages, limited storage, slow performance in remote sites, and two‑week client onboarding—to meet requirements for continuous availability, scalable costs, and rapid growth.

Assignar rebuilt its platform on AWS using a microservices architecture (distributed EC2 instances, S3/Glacier storage, CloudFront, RDS, and DynamoDB) and engaged AWS partner CloudNexa for operations support. The move enabled commercialization by late 2014 and rapid growth to 35 clients and 2,000 field workers, cut onboarding from two weeks to under 10 seconds, delivered 99.999% availability with sub-second page loads and 5–10 ms database responses, reduced infrastructure overhead so engineers spend ~80% of their time on product, and supported about 1,500 releases in a year.

Assignar

Marko Tomic

Co-Founder