Case Study: Firefly Learning achieves same-day school onboarding and 99.99% uptime with Amazon Web Services

Firefly Boosts Student and Teacher Experiences in the AWS Cloud

Firefly Learning, a UK EdTech company that connects teachers, students, and parents, faced growing pain from on‑premises deployments: installations took weeks, support time was dominated by school infrastructure problems, and schools struggled to handle spiky workloads and high availability on local servers.

Moving to the AWS Cloud — using Amazon RDS and AWS Business Support and operating across multiple regions — allowed Firefly to offer same‑day school onboarding, automatic scaling, stronger security, and 99.99% uptime; about 70% of customers are now cloud‑hosted, teacher satisfaction is 13% higher, and the infrastructure team has supported growth without expanding headcount.

Firefly

Simon Hay

Co-Founder and CEO