Case Study: Condé Nast achieves 40% cost reduction and 30–40% performance gains with Amazon Web Services

Condé Nast - Customer Case Study

Condé Nast Russia, part of Condé Nast International and publisher of nine magazines and seven websites reaching roughly three million readers, faced persistent data‑center problems — frequent equipment failures, poor security isolation, and only about 85% site availability — that limited its ability to scale digital offerings and meet reader expectations.

The company migrated its infrastructure to AWS in under six months, moving hundreds of servers, about a petabyte of storage and more than 100 databases onto services such as EC2, S3, Route 53 and Storage Gateway. The move cut costs by ~40%, boosted operational performance 30–40%, doubled the amount of IT work done for the same price, and raised uptime to 99.9% (with rapid restore capability), while improving security isolation and enabling faster innovation.

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