Case Study: Domain Group achieves rapid innovation and elastic, cost‑efficient scaling with Amazon Web Services

Domain Group - Customer Case Study

Domain Group, a Fairfax-owned Australian real‑estate information and services company, faced slow, shared on‑premises infrastructure and lengthy CAPEX approval cycles that prevented fast feature releases and left them overprovisioned for seasonal peaks. Aging servers, near‑capacity storage for property images, and operational bottlenecks meant weeks or months to deploy new capacity, slowing time to market and forcing shortcuts in infrastructure design.

By migrating its entire IT architecture to AWS (completed in three months) and using services like Auto Scaling, S3, and ElastiCache with Enterprise Support, Domain Group gained agility and cost‑efficient scalability. The company can configure Windows instances in 10 minutes, launched a new school‑catchment feature within a day, and improved server response by 50%; availability rose to 99.95% and after‑hours service calls fell 83%, while automatically scaling for demand and reducing capital overhead.

Domain Group

Paul McManus

Technology Director