Case Study: AOL achieves data-center consolidation and millions in cost savings with Amazon Web Services

AOL - Customer Case Study

AOL, one of the original Internet companies with businesses in digital advertising, multiple web properties, and membership services, needed to modernize a large, aging data‑center footprint. The company faced high operating and energy costs and the challenge of moving mission‑critical workloads to the cloud while extending its global reach.

AOL migrated to AWS, using services like AWS Lambda for serverless architectures, a variety of Amazon EC2 instances (Intel Xeon) for cost control, and hybrid approaches where needed. The move allowed AOL to close data centers and decommission about 14,000 servers, shift critical workloads to the cloud, expand globally, and save millions in energy costs.

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