Case Study: Gannett achieves rapid, consistent deployments - cutting deploy time from weeks to minutes with Amazon Web Services

Gannett - Customer Case Study

Gannett, publisher of USA TODAY and the USA TODAY NETWORK (plus U.K. business Newsquest), needed to move faster in a digital-first media market. Its legacy on‑premises model suffered from siloed development and operations, “shadow IT,” manual handoffs and tests, and deployment cycles that took days to weeks—limiting the company’s ability to deliver timely, personalized digital content.

Gannett adopted AWS and Chef and introduced DevOps and infrastructure‑as‑code, starting small with the mobile API team and scaling through cross‑functional training and standardized “cookbooks.” The result: deployments dropped from weeks to minutes, weekly deployments rose from about one to roughly 25, teams gained better visibility and auditability, and the company began migrating most IT to the cloud to deliver faster digital services and support growth.

Gannett

Erik Bursch

Vice President