Launched in 2019, Firstory is Taiwan’s leading podcast hosting platform to empower podcasters to distribute content globally and to connect with audiences. Now, they have covered 190+ countries and hosted 300K+ episodes. As for the podcast hosting service, Firstory provides unlimited storage and bandwidth for creators to grow without restrictions. Furthermore, Firstory published a membership mechanism and DAI ads to help podcasters monetize more efficiently and dynamically. The number of active shows powered by Firstory has a monthly growth rate of 10%.
Customer Needs
Since Firstory’s users come from 190+ countries, service should be maintained and available to users from multiple regions and time zones.
The outbound fee accounts for the majority of the cost compared to the machine cost. Thus, reducing outbound fees will be essential to keeping the cost down.
Hours of downtime are allowed.
Migration Solution
Keep using the Amazon CloudFront to maintain the operation efficiency of the CDN service
Use the Rehost strategy to migrate to the AWS Cloud
Adopt the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to support podcast online editions and ad insertion
Through Amazon S3 to store the original audio files for podcast streaming
Use Amazon Beanstalk to support the front-end website
Adopt Amazon Relational Database Service to support the migration. As Firstory accepts hours of downtime, the migration is achieved by dumping and restoring
Firstory Architecture
Outcome
Eliminating outbound fees achieves a cost reduction of 30%.
Integrating all services into AWS makes product management simpler. Moreover, it simplifies the production deployment, reducing the labor cost of the relevant personnel by 25%.
Reducing latency provides a better user experience.
