Case Study: GivenGain achieves 99.99% availability and over 50% cost savings with Amazon Web Services

GivenGain - Customer Case Study

GivenGain, a Switzerland-based leader in cloud-based activism founded in 2001, helps individuals and nonprofits raise funds and build sustainable funding models. After nine years of growth its original hosting hit reliability and capacity limits, and the organization needed a cost-conscious way to scale up for peak loads and scale down during quieter periods.

GivenGain moved to AWS services — Amazon EC2 and RDS for resizable compute and managed databases, Elastic Load Balancing and Auto Scaling for dynamic traffic handling, and Amazon EFS for shared file storage — enabling the small team to focus on the product. The move delivered 99.99% availability and durability, cut costs by more than 50% (with an additional 40% reduction in 2015), and simplified instance management and scaling.

GivenGain

Laurent Peretti-Poix

Chief Technology Officer