Canva on AWS
Canva is a cloud-based design and publishing tool with a mission to make professional design accessible to everyone. With more than 235 million monthly active user users including 95% of Fortune 500 companies, the platform leverages AWS's storage, compute, machine learning, and security solutions to scale seamlessly and deliver consistent, personalized experiences to users globally.
Design without Limits: How Canva Empowers Creatives with gen AI
2025
To help customers move from a blank page to digital design faster, Canva built gen AI tools with Amazon Bedrock, empowering users to generate text with Magic Write, generate images, get help from a chat assistant, and search through a gen AI recommendation system. What began as basic machine learning for search and recommendations has evolved into a comprehensive AI toolkit. Dive into the cutting-edge world of generative AI as Canva's Greg Roodt and AWS's Baskar Sridharan unpack Canva's exhilarating journey from concept to reality with gen AI. Hear about Canva's AI evolution, including the work involved in model selection, evaluation strategies, and the delicate balance of trust in the AI ecosystem. Greg lays out a roadmap for others to scale generative AI. From building trust to implementing robust moderation systems, this discussion also delves into responsible AI deployment. Hear more about the what might come next with gen AI and explore how data automation is taming the wild frontier of unstructured data.
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.
Ray 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 Chooses AWS to Support 55 Million Global Users
2019
Canva migrated to Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) to gain more control over its databases and to work with a mature cloud provider with more integrated offerings. With 55 million monthly active users—many in developing markets such as Brazil and Indonesia—who have created over five billion designs, or 100+ designs per second, Canva needed a way to support its fast-growing customer base. Cloud computing was a natural choice from the start, to align with the company’s global vision as well as for storage and processing needs for the huge data sets generated from designs and supporting images. The migration paved the way for other innovations using machine learning.
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, CanvaCanva 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.
Canva Scales Text to Image to 100 Million Users Quickly Using Amazon SageMaker
2022
Canva wanted to introduce a new text-to-image function to its 100 million monthly active users. Working on premises, Canva would have needed 6 months of dedicated work and hundreds of GPUs. Instead, using Amazon SageMaker, Canva implemented this feature in only 3 weeks and applied content moderation to these newly created images using Amazon Rekognition.
Canva Helps Enterprises with Design Tools Powered by AWS
2021
Launched in November 2019, Canva for Enterprise helps teams of up to thousands of users share designs and create together seamlessly, regardless of location. Teams create more than six million presentations in Canva each week. AWS allows Canva to scale on demand. Additionally, Canva uses Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) for image processing, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) for data storage, and Amazon SageMaker and Amazon Personalize for a tailored user experience.
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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