In 2010, six friends formed 6Wunderkinder in Berlin, Germany to launch Wunderlist, a cross-platform task management application. Customers can use Wunderlist to create to-do lists and tasks, delegate tasks, and collaborate with friends and colleagues. Wunderlist runs on multiple operating systems and devices as well as the Web and automatically synchronizes data across all devices. Since its beginning, 6Wunderkinder has grown to 39 employees and has more than 3.5 million registered users for Wunderlist, which is available in 30 languages and in over 100 countries.
“We had completely rewritten our backend synchronization infrastructure in a new technology stack. Moving our existing user base gave us some understanding of our performance and scaling needs,” says Fowler. “We needed an easy way to script provisioning for our infrastructure, enable high I/O throughput for some situations, and scale horizontally. Amazon Web Services (AWS) was our choice from the beginning because it provides the kind of flexibility and speed that we need.”