Case Study: Allergan achieves faster global website performance and $140K annual CDN savings with Amazon CloudFront

Allergan - Customer Case Study

Allergan, a global pharmaceutical company that operates more than 400 product marketing websites and serves about 18 million visitors annually, faced slow website launches because its on‑premises data center and lengthy server‑procurement process delayed deployments by weeks. With strict FDA and HIPAA compliance needs and using the Sitecore CMS, Allergan sought a cloud solution and adopted AWS services—including the Amazon CloudFront CDN—to gain agility, performance, and global reach.

Allergan migrated 400+ sites to AWS, running Sitecore on Amazon EC2, Amazon RDS, and Amazon S3 with a 1‑Gbps Direct Connect link, and implemented Amazon CloudFront to replace Akamai—delivering an annual CDN savings of $140,000. The change enabled instant server provisioning instead of multi‑week waits, improved global site performance, met compliance requirements, supported 10% annual growth through faster brand onboarding, and reduced operating costs by allowing systems to be spun down when idle.

Allergan

Tomasz Kozlowski

Associate Director, Enterprise Architecture