Mint considered hosting its service in an internal private cloud, but instead chose to move to Amazon Web Services (AWS). We needed a cloud company that provided strong security capabilities.” “Given that we’re managing financial data, security is of paramount importance. “It made sense to migrate to the cloud, but we had to make sure we found the right cloud provider,” McCluskey says. Moving to the cloud would help solve some of these challenges. We wanted to focus more on delivering exceptional financial-management products and less on managing the backend IT environment.” “Our business is helping people improve their financial lives. “Data-center management is not our core business,” McCluskey says. The Mint team also wanted to put more of its resources into new software development. “We wanted to be able to scale up for that peak load automatically without spending a lot of time and money acquiring and provisioning new servers every time.” “We see a minimum 200 percent increase in website traffic immediately after January 1 each year,” says Sean McCluskey, director of application development and cloud operations for Intuit. was originally hosted in an internal data center, but the team needed to improve its ability to scale up or down to meet peak traffic demands.

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