Case Study: Answers.com achieves faster, scalable image management with Cloudinary

How Answers.com manage millions of images

Answers.com needed a scalable way to manage the millions of images powering its high-traffic site. Its in-house image system had outgrown the company’s needs, and the team at Answers was looking for a faster, more flexible solution to handle growing uploads, transformations, and delivery across many device types.

Cloudinary provided the solution, integrating quickly with Answers’ AWS S3 setup and enabling on-the-fly image transformations, normalization, resizing, face-detection cropping, and optimization for formats like GIFs, vector graphics, and PDFs. With Cloudinary, Answers reported significant developer time savings, faster image management at scale, and instant delivery of images to users, improving both operational efficiency and the overall user experience.

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Amod Setlur

VP of Engineering