Case Study: Currencycloud achieves rapid scaling, 30% cost savings and stronger compliance with Amazon Web Services

How migrating to AWS helped Currencycloud achieve higher server and database performance

Currencycloud, founded in 2012 to simplify international payments for businesses, faced a major infrastructure challenge: its on‑premises servers were expensive to run, slow to provision (taking weeks to months), and hard to scale while meeting strict security and regulatory requirements. These limitations risked slowing growth, increasing costs, and diverting engineering effort into maintaining physical infrastructure instead of building product.

Currencycloud migrated to AWS with support from AWS Solutions Architects and partners, adopting Amazon EC2, Amazon Aurora, and managed security services (IAM, encryption, firewalls) to meet compliance and performance needs. The move reduced server spin‑up time from six weeks to six minutes, delivered a projected 30% cost reduction in year one, improved performance and reliability, and freed the team to focus on new products and faster market delivery.

Currencycloud

Duncan Wren

Head of Infrastructure