From data-center chaos to billion-dollar acquisitions: the real story behind Clio's cloud journey, compliance battles, and rapid AI-driven transformation.

Topics Include:

• AWS-Clio partnership: migrate, modernize, add AI, then co-sell
• Legal industry ran on WordPerfect, mainframes, and homemade billing
• Clio launched 2008, same year as AWS's first database
• Now serves 400,000+ legal professionals across 130 countries
• Landed legal tech's largest-ever acquisition, raised $500M Series G
• Ships code 50-100 times daily in a regulated industry
• Started split across a data center, Azure, AWS, some GCP
• Nine years of acquisitions, fundraising, and rapid team growth
• Sharded databases, added regions for compliance and low latency
• Engineering team grew from 40 to over 650 people
• Lawyers once feared cloud security and data ownership questions
• Three principles: data security, system resilience, data regionality
• Stage one: survival, learning EC2, RDS, S3 basics
• Stage two: earning trust through SOC 2, PCI compliance
• AWS became a compliance partner, not just a host
• Stage three: AI reshapes coding speed and company culture
• Integrating acquisitions scattered across Heroku, GCP, Azure, others
• VLUX deal added a billion-document legal case-law database
• Rapid acquisition-to-launch playbook: some products shipped in days
• Strategy: avoid single AI vendor, preserve maximum optionality

Participants:

• Jonathan Watson – Chief Technology Officer, Clio
• Martin Bazinet – Director of Technology, AWS Canada, Amazon Web Services

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