Case Study: SimScale achieves cost-efficient, scalable browser-based simulation with Amazon Web Services

SimScale - Customer Case Study

SimScale, founded in 2012 by five TU Munich students, developed a browser-based simulation platform that lets designers run complex simulations and share projects; the startup grew to 50+ employees and about 100,000 users. The founders faced limited budget and no HPC hardware, volatile customer demand, and the need to lower cost and skill barriers so simulation could be more widely used and knowledge could be shared.

SimScale built on AWS—using Amazon EC2 (including large r3.8xlarge instances), Amazon S3 and EBS, and AWS Activate/support—to gain on-demand HPC, elastic scaling, and reduced IT overhead. The result was rapid go-to-market, thousands saved in hardware and personnel costs, tens of thousands of jobs per month, nearly 100,000 users, 30,000+ public projects, millions of core-hours processed, and an ongoing partnership with AWS.

SimScale

Vincenz Dölle

Managing Director