Case Study: LiteracyPlanet achieves instant scalability and faster time-to-market with Amazon Web Services

LiteracyPlanet - Customer Case Study

LiteracyPlanet is an Australian edtech company that provides a gamified online literacy platform for children aged 4–15. Running a monolithic Ruby on Rails app on a small U.S. cloud, the 24‑person business needed richer cloud services, simpler vendor management, better cost control, and the ability to scale quickly to support spikes in demand and international expansion.

LiteracyPlanet migrated to AWS and modernized its stack—moving to EC2, RDS, S3 and CloudFront, adopting Auto Scaling, microservices, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS/SNS, DynamoDB, Route 53, VPCs and automation with Ansible and CloudFormation. The move delivered seamless scaling during a media-driven surge (from ~300–400 to >4,000 sessions and 5,500 signups in 20 minutes) with no downtime, ~99.999% availability, dramatically faster product rollout (months to about a week), lower operational overhead (<5% team time on ops) and improved cost control and global growth readiness.

LiteracyPlanet

Richard Glew

Chief Technology Officer