Case Study: Marine Desk achieves rapid launch and 99.99% availability with Amazon Web Services

Marine Desk - Customer Case Study

Marine Desk, a Singapore-based startup, operates a bidding platform that helps ship owners secure competitive bunker-fuel prices by soliciting bids from agents worldwide. The founders needed to launch quickly and cost-effectively without investing in on‑premises datacenter hardware, while ensuring high availability, low bandwidth use for customers at sea, and strong security to protect sensitive bidding information.

Working with BlazeClan, Marine Desk built its platform on AWS using a dedicated VPC with EC2 instances (Auto Scaling), Elastic Load Balancing, and Amazon RDS for MySQL, and optimized the app for minimal bandwidth. The AWS pay‑as‑you‑go model let them launch in four months, achieve 99.99% availability, improve data isolation and security, and scale globally while adding new analytics and services.

Marine Desk

Sandeep Kaul

Co-Founder and VP, Sales