Case Study: Panther Labs accelerates cloud deployments and cuts codebase size with Pulumi

Panther Labs Increasing Velocity & Innovation

Panther Labs, a security data firm building a modern detection and response platform on AWS, needed a better way to manage its complex, fully serverless infrastructure. Its team was struggling with AWS CloudFormation’s YAML-based DSL, stack limits, slow deployments, and lack of support for standard programming practices, which made the codebase unwieldy and slowed innovation.

Panther Labs migrated to the Pulumi Cloud Engineering Platform to manage infrastructure with standard languages, reusable components, and testing/CI/CD workflows. With Pulumi, the team cut deployment times dramatically—teardowns were 2x faster, fresh deployments 4x faster, and simple changes more than 10x faster—while reducing infrastructure code by more than 50% and improving developer productivity and release reliability.

Panther Labs

Austin Byers

Principal Platform Engineer