Case Study: Tigerspike achieves significant cost savings and global scalability with Amazon Web Services

Tigerspike - Customer Case Study

Tigerspike is a Sydney‑based digital product and services firm (180+ staff, offices worldwide) that builds mobile apps, websites and content-delivery platforms for global clients. Rapid growth exposed the limits of its single colocated datacenter—causing latency for international users, rising hardware and maintenance costs, and unpredictable CDN overage bills—so migrating to the cloud became an operational imperative.

Tigerspike migrated to AWS, adopting Amazon S3 (7 TB), CloudFront, 100+ EC2 instances across four regions, ElastiCache, ELB, Route 53, DynamoDB and other managed services to support its Phoenix platform and client apps. The move cut content-delivery costs (CloudFront was ~30× cheaper than the prior provider), reduced infrastructure costs by as much as 75% versus alternatives, saved 60% on preproduction by automated shutdowns, improved latency (up to 300 ms reduction) and achieved 99.95% uptime, while shrinking provisioning and deployment times from weeks or months to minutes or hours.

Tigerspike

Dean Jezard

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder