Koding provides developers with a stable and pre-configured software development environment where software developers don’t have to worry about installing and configuring servers. While Koding initially launched on AWS, the team decided to move to a hosted solution in a physical data center as it first began to experience explosive user growth. However, the team realized that its architecture would not scale at the pace it needed to as it continued to experience high user growth. “With hundreds of thousands of users requesting Koding accounts, we arrived at a point where we had to evaluate the pros and the cons of the ongoing maintenance of our own data center and self-hosted infrastructure solution,” explains Devrim Yasar, CEO at Koding. Another concern was the coordination and time commitment required of team members at Koding to support the infrastructure demands of its developer base, which took away from the time the team could spend focusing on delivering features.

The team began to reevaluate infrastructure options, and made the decision to move back to AWS. “AWS had made great strides in the time we had moved to our own data center, especially in terms of its scalability, pricing, and technology offering,” explains Yasar. “After a thorough investigation of all of our options, we decided to move back to AWS, and let the infrastructure portion of our technology stack be the responsibility of the experts. This enables the Koding team to focus on what we do best, which is to deliver features for software developers all over the world to move their software development 100 percent to the cloud.”