Case Study: UniKey Technologies achieves 500% revenue growth and rapid time-to-market with Microsoft Azure CDN

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UniKey Technologies, an Orlando-based startup that provides a digital key platform (notably powering Kwikset’s Kēvo smart lock), needed a scalable, flexible infrastructure to support rapid product rollouts, global partners and millions of transactions. To avoid the limits of on‑premises systems and accelerate time‑to‑market, UniKey turned to Microsoft Azure CDN and the broader Microsoft Azure platform for cloud services and partner support.

Using Microsoft Azure CDN alongside Azure PaaS, Virtual Machines, Azure Redis Cache, Azure Machine Learning, Azure Cognitive Services and Azure Service Fabric, UniKey built an end‑to‑end, microservices-enabled platform for lock enrollment, key delivery, analytics and secure authentication. The Microsoft Azure CDN‑backed solution enabled measurable growth: revenue up 500% year over year on Azure, nearly 150 million transactions processed, partner count rising from 2 to 9 (with 12 more in the pipeline), and product time‑to‑market cut to 6–9 months.

UniKey Technologies

Lee Odess

Vice President