A Case for the Cloud: Echosec Mike Anderson, Chief Technology Officer canarie.ca/cloud | @canarie_inc What was the business problem? Echosec provides customers with increased situational awareness by providing an up-to-date snapshot of social media content regarding a specific issue or event. With applications in public safety, journalism and corporate security, Echosec delivers just-in-time information that can help customers make effective time-sensitive decisions. Soon after Echosec had developed its Minimum Viable Product (MVP), we needed a solution that allowed us to test our product at scale, to ensure performance wasn’t eroding when we were testing under different parameters. What were the potential solutions? The team was already using commercial cloud infrastructures for

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