Canva on AWS
Canva uses AWS to deliver seamless, personalized design experiences to over 235 million monthly users worldwide —including 95% of Fortune 500—leveraging compute, storage, machine learning, and security services to scale globally.
Design Without Limits: Canva’s Generative AI Journey
2025
Canva built generative AI tools on Amazon Bedrock to help users go from blank page to design faster—
ata.generating text, images, and recommendations with features like Magic Write and chat assistants. The team shares lessons in model selection, trust, and responsible AI at scale
AWS re:Invent | Customer Keynote Canva
2024
Canva, an online visual communication and collaboration platform shares its engineering principles and lessons learned as it scaled from startup to more than 220 million monthly users worldwide. Canva will share its architectural evolution, starting with a monolith on Amazon EC2 and progressively transitioning to a microservices architecture utilizing various AWS services, as well as its focus on allowing anyone to build functionality on top of the Canva platform.
The beauty of AWS is that it works the same way with 100,000 users as it does with 100 million users.
Jim Tyrrell
Head of Infrastructure, CanvaRay White Streamlines Brand Consistency with Canva Enterprise on AWS
2024
Ray White's adoption of Canva Enterprise, powered by AWS, has not only streamlined their marketing operations but also showcased the power of generative AI in enhancing productivity and efficiency. By leveraging AWS's cutting-edge technologies, such as Amazon Elastic Container Service (ECS) and G5 instances, Canva Enterprise can harness the capabilities of GPU-accelerated image processing, enabling Ray White's teams to create high-quality, on-brand marketing materials with ease.
Canva Helps the World Design the Future with Data-Driven Insights Using AWS
2023
In this video, Fawaz Ahmed, Canva’s director of engineering, talks about how data drives the business. Each week, the design platform handles around 100 billion events and 400 TB of data. Canva uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) solutions to help it manage and scale its data infrastructure. Specifically, Amazon Kinesis allows it to process and analyze streaming data, giving even non-data specialists—such as its product managers—the insight they need to deliver value to customers.
We need to be laser focused on our customers, who are leaning into the magic opportunities that machine learning and artificial intelligence give us. Amazon Kinesis helps us focus on our customers—and focus on the opportunities for our business.
Fawaz Ahmed
Director of Engineering, CanvaHow Canva Saves over $3 Million a Year in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) Costs
2023
With more than 100 million monthly active users who have created billions of designs, Canva handles massive amounts of data. In fact, it stores more than 230 petabytes of data in Amazon S3. Being able to use different storage classes designed for varying access patterns and workloads is critical for the company to operate cost-effectively at scale. By migrating around 130 petabytes of infrequently accessed user data to Amazon S3 Glacier Instant Retrieval, Canva is saving more than $3 million a year.
Being on AWS gives us credibility in the enterprise space by enabling us to check every box and answer our users’ security questions confidently.
John Eitel
Global Vice President of Sales and Success, CanvaAbout Canva
Canva is a global visual communication platform launched in Australia in 2013. It’s a simple way to create everything from presentations to documents, videos, websites, infographics and more. With a global community of more than 170 million monthly users including 90% of the Fortune 500, Canva is unlocking entirely new levels of creativity and productivity while empowering individuals, teams, and enterprises to create visual communication at scale like never before. With a fast-growing customer base, Canva must meet increasing customer demand without drops in performance. Canva builds on AWS to scale seamlessly, improve its security posture, and innovate on behalf of customers with products like Canva for Teams.
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