Normalized claim
Quantified impact: 15 x increase
Blocked about 400,000 malicious requests per week and supported about 15x daily active user growth in 1 year.
Collectr + Dedicatted: AI-enhanced abuse detection on Amazon Bedrock for collectibles application reliability
Use case typeOperations optimizationUpdated Aug 4, 2026
Collectr, a collectibles portfolio tracking application, faced performance degradation, outages, and malicious scraping traffic as daily active users rose to millions of sessions. Dedicatted stabilized the AWS infrastructure, reworked the data layer, built observability, and added an AI-enhanced abuse-detection workflow on Amazon Bedrock that proposes new detection rules for engineer review and deployment.
- Organization
- Collectr
- Industry
- Consumer & Food
- Location
- Canada
- Published
- August 2026
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Other strategic outcomeVirtually zero downtime during peak card releasesOther strategic outcomeNo major outages across major card releasesCost efficiencyReduced AWS Lambda costs by blocking malicious traffic before it consumed computeEcosystem & partnershipsSupported major growth in daily active usersCompetitive differentiationFreeing engineers to focus on product development
Why do we believe this?Outcome claims, sources, and evidence checks
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- Collectr
- Provider
- AWS
- Maturity
- Unknown
- Linked source
- AWS Solutions case study
No explicit deployment-stage evidence found.
Customer identity supportedSource describes one deploymentMaturity evidence evaluated
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1Operations optimization
- 2Observability
- 3Security operations
- Migrated Collectr to a fully managed operations model on AWS.
- Implemented dashboards, alarms, anomaly detection, request-log analysis, deterministic multilayer abuse rules, and an Amazon Bedrock-based workflow that analyzes traffic spikes and proposes new mitigation rules for approval.
- Zero priority 1/2 issues over 3 months.
- No major outages across major card releases.
Architecture
Dedicatted managed Collectr’s AWS infrastructure using Amazon API Gateway, AWS Lambda, Amazon CloudWatch, Amazon RDS, Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon CloudFront, and Amazon Bedrock. The team built observability from scratch, tuned scaling, rearchitected the data layer, and added a Bedrock-based workflow that analyzes traffic spikes and proposes abuse-detection rules for engineer review before deployment.
Sources & evidence1
Evidence: Medium50/100Evidence strength
- Customer explicitly identified
- Primary source available
- Quantified outcome available
- Technical implementation details available
Type: Customer StoryPublished: Aug 4, 2026Publisher: AWSEvidence: PrimaryConfidence: High
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