

This product is used pervasively within the media and entertainment industry to quickly transfer very large files. Signiant’s SaaS solution on AWS is called Media Shuttle.

In this post, I will walk through how Signiant has re-architected its SaaS solution on AWS to take advantage of the capabilities of AWS Lambda and a serverless architecture. Each iteration of the company’s system has made improvements to the scalability and operational efficiency of the solution, culminating in a simple, Lambda-based serverless architecture. Over time, Signiant has re-architected its solution on AWS that leverages the bounce and delivery notifications provided by Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES), via an Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) topic. Signiant, an Advanced APN Technology Partner, Digital Media Competency Partner, and Storage Competency Partner, is a textbook example of a firm who has put this pattern into practice. This can afford immediate reductions in infrastructure costs and operational surface area as well as provide valuable experience in building and running systems using this new paradigm. The first step in this journey is often to re-engineer ancillary workloads that can be easily re-implemented without servers.

I work with many SaaS partners who are now leveraging the serverless model for various components of their architecture. When AWS Lambda was launched in 2014, it unlocked an ability for AWS customers and partners to implement full-featured, scalable solutions without the need to deploy or manage any servers. By Mike Deck, Partner Solutions Architect, AWS
