Launched in 2019, Firstory is Taiwan’s leading podcast hosting platform to empower podcasters to distribute the content globally and to connect with audiences. Now, they have covered 190+ countries and hosted 300K+ episodes. As for podcast hosting service, Firstory provides unlimited storage and bandwidth for creators to grow without restrictions. Furthermore, Firstory published membership mechanism and DAI ads function 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 available to users from multiple regions and time zones.
The outbound fee accounts for the major part of the cost compared to the machine cost. Thus, reducing outbound fees will be essential to keep the cost down.
Hours of downtime are allowed.
Migration Solution
Keep using Amazon CloudFront to maintain the operation efficiency of CDN service
Use Rehost strategy to migrate to AWS Cloud
Adopt Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service to support podcast online edition 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 & restoring
Firstory Architecture
Outcome
Eliminating outbound fee achieves a cost reduction of 30%.
Integrating all services in 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.
