Case Study: Y-cam Solutions achieves an 80% reduction in total cost of ownership over three years with Amazon Web Services

Y-cam Will Save 80% Over Three Years

Y‑cam Solutions Ltd., a UK provider of affordable, easy‑to‑use security video cameras and the cloud‑based HomeMonitor service, faced rapid customer growth that outpaced its co‑located hardware infrastructure. Scaling to meet demand—especially after winning a large European telco customer—was becoming complex, slow and capital‑intensive, threatening service quality and requiring a large staff and hardware investment.

Y‑cam migrated HomeMonitor to AWS (using Amazon EC2, RDS and S3 and Reserved Instances), enabling rapid, scalable deployment and pay‑as‑you‑go storage. The move cut video storage and streaming costs by more than 50%, reduced total cost of ownership by about 80% over three years, shortened deployment to five months, increased free customer storage from three to seven days, and created a new licensing revenue stream.

Y-cam Solutions

Devin Chawda

Chief Executive Officer