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HR and Payroll Software for Scaling Companies: How Deel + AWS Fix the Global Scaling Headache

Global payroll

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Jeremie Berthiaume

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March 31, 2026

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The high price of making it work

How Deel + AWS simplify the math

Real results (because the data matters)

Infrastructure built for the way we work now

Scaling a workforce across five, ten, or twenty countries is a massive win for the business, but for those of us in finance, it usually feels like navigating a minefield.

Between payroll errors, fragmented data sets, and manual reconciliation that eats up your team's weekends, global expansion can quickly turn from a growth opportunity into an operational drain. If your HR and payroll infrastructure wasn’t built for this kind of scale, you’re likely losing significant margins.

That’s exactly why the partnership between Deel and Amazon Web Services (AWS) matters. We’re moving past the era of just managing global teams and optimizing them with HR and payroll software for scaling companies.

The high price of making it work

Before you centralize, global workforce management usually looks like a chaotic patchwork of:

  • Local payroll vendors who don’t talk to each other
  • Finance teams acting as spreadsheet detectives, reconciling inconsistent data
  • Reactive budgeting due to blind spots in international labor costs

For a CFO, this isn't just an inconvenience. It’s operational risk. You can’t steer the ship if you’re looking at data that’s three weeks old and buried in a PDF from a provider in a different time zone.

How Deel + AWS simplify the math

Think of Deel as your command center for payroll, HR, and compliance, while AWS provides the heavy-lifting cloud infrastructure that ensures the whole thing scales without breaking.

Here is how that actually impacts your bottom line:

  1. One source of truth: No more asking "which version of the spreadsheet is this?" All employee and contractor data flows through one system, which virtually kills reconciliation errors
  2. Infrastructure that doesn't blink: Because it’s built on AWS, the system stays fast and reliable whether you’re onboarding your 10th employee or your 1,000th
  3. Real visibility: You can finally track spend by department, location, or role in real-time. No more guessing what your true cost is in a specific region
  4. Getting your team back: By automating the repetitive grunt work, your HR and finance talent can actually focus on high-value tasks like forecasting and strategic planning instead of manual data entry
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Real results (because the data matters)

We’re seeing organizations using Deel + AWS pull off some pretty incredible shifts:

  • 90% reduction in payroll processing errors
  • 50% fewer administrative hours spent on manual HR and finance tasks
  • Total visibility into global labor costs, instantly

Take ServicePower, for example. They needed to staff global projects fast, but didn't want to balloon their HR headcount to do it. Procuring Deel through the AWS Marketplace streamlined their billing and financial controls, allowing them to manage their new global workforce with their existing lean team.

Deel is an accelerator for the whole business. We get projects staffed 5x faster, which directly impacts speed-to-market. And by procuring it through AWS Marketplace, we consolidate our billing and boost our enterprise discount. It's a win for our operations and our P&L.

Kyle Harsanyi,

VP of Finance, ServicePower

Infrastructure built for the way we work now

Scaling your company shouldn’t mean scaling your inefficiency. You shouldn't have to hire three new accountants just because you opened an entity in a new country.

With Deel + AWS, your workforce operations stop being a bottleneck and start being a competitive advantage. You get transparency into every dollar spent, less risk, and a much happier finance team.

Ready to see it in action?

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Jeremie Berthiaume is a Principal Partner Marketing Manager at Deel, where he specializes in building high-impact ecosystems that drive client success. With a focus on Cloud Service Providers (CSPs), Jeremie bridges the gap between complex tech infrastructure and human-centric payroll solutions. He is a firm believer that the best partnerships aren't just about integrations, they’re all about unlocking exponential value for the end customer.