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LTM
- Education
- Technology
- B2G
Powering Rapid Educational Growth
with Cloud Expertise
- Edtech
- 2 Years
- April 15,2025
Project Overview
Little Thinking Minds (LTM) is a leading education technology company experiencing rapid growth and is dedicated to developing innovative digital learning solutions for school-aged children. Their flagship product, IReadArabic.com (IRA), is a prominent differentiated literacy platform, offering a rich library of leveled books and engaging videos for early-grade learners. IRA personalizes the learning experience, connecting students and teachers through a sophisticated backend system. LTM’s solutions empower over 120,000 students globally, including refugee children, across numerous public and private schools in the MENA region, Australia, Europe, Canada, and North America. LTM is currently focused on expanding its reach through large-scale B2G deals and global reach.
LTM’s rapid growth and success in securing large-scale B2G deals presented significant infrastructure challenges. They needed to ensure their AWS environment could efficiently support this exponential expansion. A key component in one of the large-scale engagement requirements was the need to host a large-scale application within the UAE. Beyond this, LTM required solutions that would maintain agility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness while managing a rapidly increasing user base and the diverse demands of large governmental projects.
To support their ambitious growth trajectory, LTM partnered with CloudVests to implement a suite of AWS solutions
- Centralized Account Management: To streamline governance and efficiency across their expanding AWS infrastructure.
- Application Modernization for Scalability and Growth: To ensure the platform could seamlessly handle the increased traffic and demands of large-scale B2G engagements while maintaining a high-quality user experience.
- Database Optimization: To ensure optimal performance and responsiveness under the strain of a rapidly growing user base and large-scale deployments, especially within the UAE.
The implementation of AWS solutions delivered significant benefits to LTM
- Enhanced Operational Efficiency: Streamlined account management processes improved governance and resource allocation, enabling LTM to focus on strategic growth.
- Increased Agility and Scalability: Modernizing the application infrastructure enabled faster deployments, improved resource utilization, and seamless scaling to meet the demands of large-scale B2G deals, including efficient hosting within the UAE.
- Improved Database Performance: Optimized database performance ensured a smooth and responsive user experience, even during peak usage periods and with the demands of large deployments.
The solutions leveraged a range of AWS services, including (but not limited to)
- AWS Control Tower (for account management)
- Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) (for application modernization)
- AWS Fargate (for serverless computing)
- Amazon Aurora (for database optimization)
The Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis for each solution included assessments of
- Initial Investment
- Infrastructure Costs (compute, storage, networking)
- Labor Costs (management and maintenance)
- Operational Overhead (system administration, monitoring, troubleshooting)
- Cost Savings (improved resource utilization, reduced overhead, faster development)
- Employee Productivity
- Cost Avoidance
The analysis demonstrated significant cost savings and efficiency gains, proving the value of the AWS implementations for LTM’s rapid expansion. By leveraging AWS, LTM has established a robust and scalable infrastructure that supports its rapid growth and the successful execution of large-scale B2G deals. This foundation enables LTM to focus on its core mission of providing high-quality educational resources and expanding its impact globally, within the UAE and the broader region.
Project Results
Savings 35%
Comliance 100%
Performance 100%
Reliability 99.99%
Technologies Used
- AWS Organizations
- AWS Config
- AWS Security Hub
- Amazon GuardDuty
- Terraform
- Ansible
