Case Study: Edmunds.com achieves $32M in five‑year cost savings and rapid scaling with Amazon Web Services

Edmunds.com - Customer Case Study

Edmunds.com, a vehicle-information and car-shopping site serving about 20 million monthly visitors, faced limits from its on-premises infrastructure: slow hardware procurement that delayed new features, rapidly rising data-warehouse costs, and expensive maintenance of its source-code system. These constraints hindered the company’s ability to innovate quickly and scale to meet growing data and traffic demands.

In early 2016 Edmunds migrated its website and back-end to AWS—using ~2,000 EC2 instances, EBS, S3, a 48-node Amazon Redshift cluster, Amazon ECS for Docker, and AWS CodeCommit hosting 1,500 repos for 270 users. The move is projected to save $32 million in five years, cut inventory processing from 30 hours to 30 minutes, reduce deployment time from six months to one week, speed container scaling from minutes to seconds, and cut source-control maintenance by 95%, freeing engineers to focus on product innovation.

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Philip Potloff

COO & CIO, Edmunds.com