CricHeroes at AWS Community Day: Scaling to 1.2 Cr with seamless customer experience

Bringing Insights to Life

We’re excited to share a proud moment for us at CricHeroes. Our Co-founder, Kuntal Shah, recently represented us at AWS Community Day 2025 – Data & Analytics Edition in Ahmedabad. It was a special opportunity to speak about how our platform uses cloud and analytics to support millions of cricketers across India.

What AWS Community Day Means to Us

AWS Community Day isn't just another tech meetup. It's a place where teams working on real-world problems get to exchange ideas, share stories, and learn from one another. For us at CricHeroes, it was a chance to explain how we use cloud technology to scale our platform and serve the grassroots cricketing community better every single day.

Thank you AWS Community for inviting me as a speaker. It was great speaking there. It was an insightful event with some amazing conversations around real-world cloud and data use cases.

-Mr. Kuntal Shah
CoFounder - CricHeroes

CricHeroes: From First Match to 1.2 Crore+ Matches

CricHeroes started in 2016 with a simple goal: to make grassroots cricketers heroes. Since then, we’ve grown into the largest cricket scoring app and network in the world.

Key Highlights:

• First match scored: October 2016
  
• Total players: 4 crore+
  
• Total matches scored: 1.2 crore+
  
• Peak weekly matches scored: Over 1.5 lakh
  
• Peak monthly active users (MAU): 60 lakh+
  
• Cricket Store launched: 2024 (selling 5,000+ units/month)
  
• Capture match camera launched: 2025 (40 units sold so far)

Powered by AWS from Day One

From the beginning, CricHeroes has been hosted on AWS Cloud. Their infrastructure helped us:

• Minimize downtime
  
• Build a reliable and scalable database
  
• Manage cost through credits
  
• Access hands-on guidance from AWS and partners

Our cloud partners, Electromech and ToTheNew, have played an important role in making this journey smoother.

What Powers CricHeroes Behind the Scenes?

Some of the frequently used are : 

• RDS & Aurora Serverless for database
  
• EC2 & ALB for compute and load balancing
  
• S3 & CloudFront for storage and content delivery
  
• WAF & SES for security and communication

Scale That Reflects the Love for Cricket

The numbers tell the story. Here is the scale of the data.:

• 40 million players, 96 lakh teams
  
• 12 million matches, 15 lakh tournaments
  
• 695 million match balls
  
• 4 lakh matches with video, aveerageh 2 hours of footage
  
• Over 12 million feed posts, 14 million comments, and 25 million reactions

Sunday Mornings = Peak Traffic

• 16,790+ matches per hour
  
• 1.92 lakh+ users per hour
  
• 6.3 lakh+ total requests per hour
  
• Over 120 GB of data transfer
  
• 20,000 to 22,000 queries per second
  
• 50 to 60 servers scaled automatically through our load balancer

Smarter Cricket with Analytics and AI

We don’t just store data — we turn it into value:

• Personalized stats and performance tracking
  
• Advanced filters for deep player analysis
  
• Shot maps and position graphs

We’ve also built:

• Leaderboards for best performers
  
• Batting maps and shot zones
  
• Real-time stat updates

AI Commentary and Highlights

• Smart, auto-generated match commentary
  
• Key moments surfaced without manual tagging

• Player of the Match cards
  
• Highlights for every innings
  
• Visual scoreboard and replay integration

These features not only bring more excitement to local games but also make cricket feel professional for every player, no matter the level.

Scaling Issues and How We Solved Them

We've faced our share of tech hurdles:

• RDS vertical sizing limits
  
• RDS IOPS bottlenecks
  
• Query wait times
  
• Realtime insights design

With help from AWS and smart architecture changes, we’ve built a system that keeps pace with our user base.

Gratitude to the AWS Community

Being part of AWS Community Day was more than just speaking at an event. It was a way to look back at how far we’ve come and connect with others building meaningful solutions.

We're thankful to the AWS User Groups and organizers who made this event memorable.

Final Thoughts

CricHeroes isn't just a cricket scoring app anymore. It's a tech platform that brings visibility to every gully cricketer, school team, and amateur tournament in India. And with support from AWS, we’re just getting started.

If you're building a platform that needs to scale fast and serve millions, we’re always open to exchanging ideas. Drop us a message anytime.