Case Study: Shutl achieves rapid, scalable, capital-efficient delivery platform with Amazon Web Services

Shutl - Customer Case Study

Shutl is a UK-based delivery-aggregation service that enables retailers to offer customers rapid e‑commerce deliveries (90‑minute or one‑hour windows) by routing orders through a web-service API to the best courier based on location, cost and past performance. As a start‑up launching a real‑time logistics platform, Shutl needed a flexible, scalable infrastructure with minimal upfront capital expenditure to support development, testing and unpredictable traffic.

Shutl built its platform on Amazon Web Services, running production on six Amazon EC2 instances with three additional instances for testing, using Amazon EBS for persistent storage and Elastic IPs for stable addressing, and scaling with on‑demand instances during peaks. The AWS deployment enabled fast implementation, negligible capital spend, easy scaling to support growth beyond the UK, and plans to add CloudFront and Elastic Load Balancing as traffic grows.

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Steve Romney

CTO