Case Study: Condé Nast modernizes publishing and accelerates AI innovation with Amazon SageMaker and AWS

Condé Nast Goes All-In To The AWS Cloud

Condé Nast, a 115-year-old media empire with iconic brands like Vogue and The New Yorker, faced a major challenge with its fragmented technology and data infrastructure. Each of its 22+ brands operated on isolated systems, preventing unified audience insights and making data-driven decisions slow and expensive. To modernize and compete in the digital age, they partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) for a cloud migration.

With AWS, Condé Nast migrated 800+ properties to a unified infrastructure built on services like Amazon EKS and Amazon S3. They consolidated their data using the Databricks lakehouse platform on AWS, creating a single source of truth. This allowed them to deploy AI with Amazon Bedrock, transforming workflows. The results were significant, reducing a critical content rights management process from weeks to minutes and unlocking a century of archived content for new revenue opportunities.

Condé Nast

Joe Simon

Chief Technology Officer