Shaping the future of learning with European cloud.
Skillboost is a Swedish EdTech company founded in 2020. Its mission is to make it easy for businesses and entrepreneurs to create, sell, and manage courses. As the ultimate one-stop shop for those wishing to share their knowledge or skills, the business has experienced significant growth since its conception.
Skillboost sought a reliable and secure cloud infrastructure to store and manage sensitive student data. Committed to user privacy and achieving European regulatory compliance, the leading learning platform needed a cloud solution to help safeguard data while enabling seamless scalability and performance for its growing user base.
Having evaluated other providers, Skillboost partnered with UpCloud, a European cloud provider compliant with ISO 27001 standards, to ensure data remained secure on servers close to the end-users and handled in compliance with European regulations.
“Our user base is mainly focused in Scandinavia; therefore, we sought a provider with data centres in the region to meet end-user demands regarding where their data is stored. For us, UpCloud meets these requirements and enables us to scale our projects at ease.”
Gjorgi Mijalchev, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Skillboost
Skillboost was drawn to UpCloud’s competitive price point to manage cloud costs efficiently. “Other providers operating in the region failed to provide the same range of services at a desirable price point. As a result, we have successfully reduced our cloud spend by 75% with UpCloud” says Mijalchev.
Currently, the Swedish learning platform utilises UpCloud Cloud Servers, Managed Databases, and a Managed Load Balancer, enabling the Skillboost team to allocate more resources to their core mission of delivering high-quality educational content and enhancing the learning experience for end-users.
Onboarding with UpCloud early in Skillboost’s growth journey, the business valued the platform’s ease of use and control over its infrastructure. Striving to tackle the next phase of its expansion, the learning platform values the flexible scalability of servers in addition to the product features offered.
“For our team, having point-in-time recovery at no additional cost has been beneficial in scaling our services, ensuring that issues can be resolved swiftly and our end-users continue to receive the best experience possible.”
Gjorgi Mijalchev, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Skillboost
Looking to the future, Skillboost plans to grow its offering, with UpCloud taking care of the infrastructure and scaling services as the business grows.
At UpCloud, we look forward to the next stage of Skillboost’s journey and are proud to be part of its growth story.
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