Case Study: Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport achieves greater agility, uptime, and cost savings with Amazon Web Services

How Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport migrated to the cloud and increased agility, scalability, and innovation in managing its complex operations

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world’s busiest airport, wanted to modernize its GIS operations and move away from costly, complicated on-premises servers. With help from **Amazon Web Services**, ATL looked to cloud services like **Amazon EC2** and **Amazon S3** to improve scalability, reduce technical debt, and make it easier to deliver maps and GIS tools to staff.

**Amazon Web Services** implemented a cloud-based GIS environment that let ATL run ArcGIS on EC2 and store large datasets in S3, while also using Amazon WorkSpaces for remote access. The move increased uptime to **99.9%**, improved staff productivity, enabled web maps to be deployed within hours, and cut costs by using pay-as-you-go scaling instead of pre-purchasing capacity.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

Brian Haren

GIS Program Manager