8KMiles.com is a distributed development platform that blends a global talent marketplace with collaboration tools and cloud infrastructure. 8KMiles.com allows businesses to hire technology talent on demand and have them work on cloud-based infrastructure (preconfigured remote desktops and servers to be used for development and testing, called theVirtual Computing Environment, or VCE). The 8KMiles platform helps businesses get technology solutions developed at a substantially lower cost than traditional outsourcing models without compromising on quality or security.
Although their application was still in alpha, 8KMiles spent a lot of money each month to host it on dedicated servers and knew they would need to spend more to acquire additional capacity. Paddy Raghavan, co-founder and chief evangelist, says, “We decided to move our entire application to the Amazon cloud based on our experience with building our VCE. We realized we could cut down our monthly costs and achieve a lot of flexibility by moving the application to Amazon Web Services.”