Case Study: Macmillan Learning achieves on-demand scalability and faster time-to-market with Amazon Web Services

Macmillan Learning - Customer Case Study

Macmillan Learning, an educational solutions company, needed to support rapid, seasonal growth for its flagship digital courseware, LaunchPad. Facing a threefold increase in users and limits of a collocated data center, the company required greater scalability, agility, and elasticity to handle peak academic traffic and a tight migration timeline.

Partnering with AWS and Relus, Macmillan moved LaunchPad to AWS—leveraging EC2, EBS, S3, CloudFront, Direct Connect, and Auto Scaling—within months. The migration enabled on‑demand capacity and minute‑scale provisioning, reduced costs by scaling down during breaks, accelerated feature delivery, and positioned the company for global expansion and additional AWS-driven analytics.

Macmillan Learning

Dawit Lessanu

Vice President of Architecture and Engineering