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 is a UK maker of affordable wireless security cameras and the cloud-based HomeMonitor service, which lets customers view and store motion‑triggered video via smartphone, tablet or PC. As its user base expanded across Europe and the U.S., Y‑cam found its co‑located, self‑owned hardware infrastructure too slow and costly to scale—especially after signing a large enterprise customer—forcing a decision to move to a cloud platform to avoid a major capital and staffing increase.

In 2011 Y‑cam migrated HomeMonitor to AWS (using Amazon EC2, RDS and S3 and optimizing with Reserved Instances), which let the company scale storage on demand and pay only for usage. The move cut video storage and streaming costs by more than 50%, shortened deployment to five months (one‑third of the original plan), increased free customer storage from three to seven days, and delivered a projected 80% reduction in three‑year TCO—enabling faster growth and a new licensing revenue stream.

Y-cam Solutions

Devin Chawda

Chief Executive Officer