Case Study: ME Bank achieves 75% lower dev/test costs and rapid provisioning with Amazon Web Services

ME Bank - Customer Case Study

ME Bank, a Melbourne‑based digital retail bank founded in 1994 that manages $20 billion in assets and serves 280,000 customers, faced slow, manual back‑office processes and an on‑premises datacenter that couldn’t support a four‑year, $60 million technology transformation. Routine tasks (like opening accounts) required manual data re‑entry, and web servers were strained by advertising traffic—threatening deadlines and customer experience.

ME Bank moved development and testing to AWS (using Amazon VPC, EC2, CloudFormation, IAM, S3 and CloudFront), enabling rapid, on‑demand environments and offloading ad traffic to a CDN. Provisioning times fell from up to six weeks to one day, dev/test costs dropped ~75%, the developer team grew from 3 to 150, campaign traffic spikes of 2,000% were handled smoothly, and automated instance shutdowns cut instance spend by 49%, helping the bank meet milestones and keep the project on budget.

ME Bank

Joel Fanning

Enterprise Architect