Case Study: Afterpay achieves rapid global IT expansion and low-latency, high-availability services with Digital Realty

Afterpay - Customer Case Study

Afterpay is an Australian fintech that offers a global buy‑now, pay‑later platform powered by a real‑time decision engine. Rapid growth—over $2 billion in sales in FY18, up 289% year‑over‑year—and a distributed workforce of ~450 employees created a pressing need for low latency, high‑availability corporate applications across multiple regions.

To meet that challenge Afterpay used Service Exchange and Digital Realty’s strategic edge deployments and interconnection services to place IT infrastructure closer to employees, simplify connectivity, and scale quickly. The result was reliable, low‑latency access to corporate apps, faster global expansion of their IT environment, and an improved user experience.

Afterpay

Simon Gowland

Global Head of Infrastructure