Case Study: UNiDAYS accelerates international growth with Nordcloud's AWS best practice support

Powering UNiDAYS' international expansion and rapid business growth with AWS Best Practice

UNiDAYS, a UK-based student discount platform, was experiencing rapid growth and international expansion across multiple countries, but its AWS environment—initially built and hosted by its own founding team—was becoming stretched. To help them assess and improve their cloud setup, Nordcloud delivered a Best Practice Lab aligned with the AWS Well-Architected Framework, covering security, performance, reliability, and cost management.

Nordcloud worked side-by-side with the UNiDAYS team to implement best-practice improvements such as cost alerts, cross-account access management, CloudTrail logging and alerts, and high-availability configurations like RDS Multi-AZ and Auto Scaling. The engagement also included guidance on continuous delivery, and Nordcloud produced a prioritized roadmap for further changes. As a result, UNiDAYS optimized its AWS infrastructure, improved scalability and security, gained cost savings from auto-scaling, and delivered a faster, more reliable service to users.

UNiDAYS

Tom Peach-Geraghty

Head of IT Operations