Case Study: Koding achieves weekly feature releases and scalable cloud development with Amazon Web Services

Koding - Customer Case Study

Koding is a cloud-based development environment used by more than one million developers that lets teams spin up preconfigured VMs for popular languages and stacks. After initially hosting on AWS, Koding moved to a self-hosted data center as it scaled, but its architecture couldn’t keep up with explosive user growth—resulting in downtime and heavy infrastructure maintenance that pulled engineers away from building product features.

Koding migrated back to AWS to take advantage of on‑demand scalability, cost‑effective t2.micro instances, and robust APIs, using services like EC2, S3, RDS, and Route 53 across multiple regions. The move eliminated downtime, enabled weekly feature releases instead of monthly or quarterly cycles, allowed the team to focus hiring on product development, and led to new offerings and open‑source contributions (for example, the Tunnel Proxy and the forthcoming “Koding for Teams”).

Koding

Nitin Gupta

Chief Business Officer