Case Study: TIBCO achieves 40% EC2 reduction and sub‑minute deployment times with Amazon Web Services

TIBCO Uses AWS to Cut Deployment Times, Reduce Server Footprint by 40%

TIBCO’s Simplr service helps nontechnical users connect SaaS applications via a library of preconfigured connectors, but its original VM-based microservices on Amazon EC2 had grown complex to manage. The environment required many Auto Scaling groups and manual cluster/port management, produced slow patch and scale times, and drove TIBCO to seek a simpler, more cost-effective architecture that would speed development and operations.

TIBCO migrated Simplr to Docker containers managed by Amazon ECS (with Application Load Balancer, ECR, Lambda lifecycle hooks, and related AWS services) using a phased CI/CD-driven approach. The move cut EC2 usage by 40%, reduced clusters from seven to two, slashed patch deployment from a minimum of five minutes to under one minute (often seconds), sped scale-out by about 97% (to 10–15 seconds), and eliminated much of the manual operational overhead.

TIBCO

Mike Slavin

Principal Architect