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"Movember operates in 21 countries around the world. It's very important to us that we have a fast and reliable digital platform that allows us to reach those people. Unlike a lot of other charities, our primary method of fundraising is through, direct P2P fundraising. So our platform is our life. It's our entire income.
Throughout the year, Movember doesn't actually get a lot of traffic, but during our campaign, our magical month, our traffic goes through the roof. And it's during that time that we really need everything to work. We can't have a campaign where we experience downtime or anything like that. We need to keep the service available, but we want it to cost as little as possible.
The problem we're trying to solve is we needed to move our workload from on-premise into the cloud. Our infrastructure was costing a lot of money, it wasn't as reliable as we liked, and it didn't scale to our needs.
Given that we get just about all of our income for the year during the month of Movember, we need to have a solid disaster recovery plan. Any sort of technical outage that prevents our platform from working can literally cost us all of our money for the year. So having that reliability is, it's worth it’s weight in gold.
AC3 provided the entire solution architecture for our move to the cloud. Everything from auto-scaling groups on our EC2 servers, to running into new technologies with Lambda functions and functions-as-a-service, or provide us with an overall cost-effective solution that allows us to be confident every time we go into November.
The results were amazing.
In our first year of switching to AWS, we reduced our costs by 80%. For a charity, that is an amazing result. Year on year, AC3 have actually come back and helped us decrease those already reduced costs every single year. So they've been able to help us optimise all of our workloads and make sure that we're not wasting a single cent of our donors' money.
The services that they designed and implemented were highly reliable and scalable and have provided us with a much lower cost of ownership.
Having AC3 as part of our team means that we can focus on our charitable work, while AC3 provide us all the expertise we need to deliver that work properly.
We've got a 13 year partnership with AC3. And in that time, Movember as an organisation has evolved, and every step of the way, AC3 has been able to evolve with us."