Case Study: SmugMug cuts photo-serving costs by up to 40% with Amazon Web Services

SmugMug Moves Photo-Sharing Service to Amazon EC2 A1 Instances, Cuts Costs by up to 40%

SmugMug, the paid photo- and video-sharing platform, needed to optimize the cost of serving billions of photos and videos while preserving strong performance. The company had been running its workloads on Amazon Web Services, using Amazon EC2 for its photo-serving application and Amazon S3 for storage.

Amazon Web Services helped SmugMug migrate its photo-serving stack from EC2 C5 instances to Amazon EC2 A1 instances powered by Arm-based AWS Graviton processors. The move was seamless and required only minor changes, and it reduced operating costs by up to 40% while delivering equivalent performance, freeing resources for future improvements and new features.

SmugMug

Shane Meyers

Principal Operations Engineer