Case Study: Wakelet achieves faster, scalable, cost-efficient EdTech growth with Amazon Web Services

Developing EdTech Solutions Using AWS Lambda with Wakelet

Wakelet, an EdTech platform for curators and viewers of media collections, needed to scale rapidly while cutting infrastructure and hosting costs as usage surged. With Amazon Web Services, including AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Kinesis, and other managed services, Wakelet aimed to improve performance, reduce server overhead, and support fast-growing demand.

Amazon Web Services helped Wakelet reorganize its architecture, move more workloads to serverless services, and add caching and image-processing automation. The results included reducing API servers from 40 to 3, cutting cached API request times from 200 milliseconds to under 1 millisecond, lowering image hosting costs by 80%, and building multiregion infrastructure in just 2 weeks. Wakelet also reported major scale gains, with viewers up 2,000% and active curators up 250,000%, while maintaining about a 95% cache hit rate.

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Nick Blow

Chief Technology Officer