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Halving cloud costs while scaling to 120,000+ students

CloudVests modernized the education platform for regional data isolation, stronger peak performance, high availability, and substantially lower AWS cost.

Little Thinking Minds logoClientLittle Thinking Minds
Little Thinking Minds engineering team reviewing cloud platform performance
50%lower monthly cloud cost
$40.8Kvalidated annual savings
25–30%faster peak-hour performance
99.99%uptime for 120K+ students

Selected AWS services

Core services in the architecture.

A focused view of the AWS services most representative of this engagement. The complete technical scope is described below.

  1. 01Amazon ECS
  2. 02Elastic Load Balancing
  3. 03Amazon Aurora
  4. 04Amazon CloudFront
  5. 05Amazon CloudWatch
  6. 06AWS Cost Explorer

Client story

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01

The challenge

As Little Thinking Minds expanded into UAE government schools, cloud spend was rising, the application slowed during busy school hours, and the platform needed to satisfy strict public-sector data-residency requirements.

02

What CloudVests delivered

CloudVests reviewed the platform against AWS best practices, moved it to a leaner elastic architecture, and restructured its data layer so regional information remained properly isolated.

Application services were consolidated on Amazon ECS and distributed behind Elastic Load Balancing, while Amazon Aurora provided a managed, highly available data tier. Regional data boundaries were reflected in the workload and database layout rather than handled only in application logic.

Amazon CloudFront reduced repeated origin work during school-hour peaks. CloudWatch telemetry and Cost Explorer data were used together to rightsize capacity without trading away learner experience or availability.

03

The outcome

The modernization improved peak-hour performance and availability while lowering spend and giving the internal team a clearer, more sustainable architecture.

The platform moved to a measurable capacity model in which student demand, database behavior, content delivery, and cost could be reviewed together by the engineering team.

“Little Thinking Minds saw a remarkable 50% reduction in cloud costs and a 25% performance improvement thanks to CloudVests’ effective AWS partnership. They also empowered our team with valuable knowledge.” — Tareq Elayyan, Director of Software Engineering, Little Thinking Minds