Case Study: EROAD achieves global scalability and significant cost savings with Amazon Web Services

EROAD - Customer Case Study

EROAD is a New Zealand technology company that sells GPS-enabled hardware and cloud software to monitor commercial vehicles and collect road-user charges. As it expanded into Australia and North America, its co-located data center approach ran out of capacity and would have required escalating capital outlay (estimated $20k initially to $250k by year three), plus costly multi-site disaster recovery and compliance efforts that threatened cash flow and service continuity.

EROAD migrated its entire platform to Amazon Web Services, deploying regional VPCs with auto-scaled EC2 clusters, load balancing, CloudFront, Redshift analytics and automated infrastructure management. The move let the company align costs to revenue, enter new markets quickly, and deliver fast, scalable service—page loads around 1.2s and thousands of vehicle updates per second—while meeting ISO and audit requirements. AWS reduced infrastructure costs (about 2.5× cheaper than equivalent co-location), enabled rich customer analytics, and delivered 99.99% availability with successful third‑party security audits.

EROAD

Jarred Clayton

Engineering Manager