Prezi is an 'open canvas' providing zooming presentation software that enables more than 17 million users worldwide to better communicate their ideas. To deliver its innovative platform, Prezi uses hundreds of servers, many of which are Amazon EC2 resources. Managing both a large-scale compute infrastructure and a massive user base creates a range of issues:
- Rapidly add compute resources to keep pace with immense user demand
- Manage configuration and orchestration of complex infrastructure including website, media storage and provisioning, monitoring and data mining resources
- Establish transparent, consistent infrastructure that can be easily understood and managed by both existing personnel and new team additions as company grows
