The eventual founders of PostDot Technologies started developing the Postman app in 2012 to streamline the process of developing, managing, and maintaining APIs. In 2014, they established PostDot Technologies in Bangalore, India to formalize development of Postman and grow its customer base. They realized the business needed a more dynamic and flexible infrastructure for its development, testing, and production activities, and an on-premises environment was not the answer. “We needed to be able to iterate quickly without getting bogged down by the resource-intensive requirements of on-premises deployments, and chose to deliver Postman from the cloud,” says Ankit Sobti, co-founder and chief technology officer of PostDot Technologies.

However, when PostDot Technologies started delivering Postman from a cloud service, the company quickly ran into problems scaling to meet its requirements. The time and resources needed to manage databases—and activities such as load balancing—diverted team members from customer activities. “We had 650,000 users from day one, including 100,000 users of our cloud service, and the unmanaged nature of our cloud provider caused a lot of problems supporting this volume,” Sobti says. As a result of these challenges, PostDot started looking for an alternative cloud service that could meet its business needs.