Case Study: Meteor Development Group achieves scalable, highly available container orchestration for Galaxy with Amazon Web Services

Meteor Development Group - Customer Case Study

Meteor Development Group is the team behind Meteor, an open‑source cross‑platform JavaScript app framework. When they launched Galaxy—a managed, container‑based service for deploying Meteor apps—they faced the challenge of managing hundreds of thousands of containers, providing highly available multi‑Availability‑Zone deployments, speeding up provisioning for developers, and scaling orchestration as customer apps multiplied.

They built Galaxy on AWS, using Amazon ECS for orchestration, Elastic Load Balancing for traffic routing, and CloudFormation for rapid provisioning. This simplified container management, enabled turnkey multi‑AZ availability, and increased developer velocity; customers were in production within a month, the platform scaled to meet growing demand, and Meteor’s team gained faster, more reliable testing and deployment workflows.

Meteor Development Group

Matt DeBergalis

Cofounder & VP Product