Case Study: Australian Government achieves a low-cost, scalable census website with Serverless Inc.

Australian Government builds a serverless census site for under $500 with Serverless Inc

The Australian Government faced a significant challenge when its official census website, which cost over $10 million to build and load test, crashed immediately upon launch due to an inability to handle user traffic. This failure jeopardized the entire national data collection effort.

Using a serverless architecture built on AWS services like Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB, Serverless Inc. showcased a solution that was developed in under 24 hours for less than $500. The alternative site built by Serverless Inc. remained stable under load testing of up to 100,000 requests per second, demonstrating a massively scalable and cost-effective outcome that received worldwide acclaim.

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