Case Study: IAC Publishing achieves 4–6 daily deployments and $15M annual savings with Amazon Web Services

IAC Publishing Deploys Software Daily, Saves $15 Million Annually Using AWS

IAC Publishing, a division of IAC that runs sites such as The Daily Beast, Dotdash, Investopedia, and Dictionary.com and reaches over 100 million U.S. users monthly, faced slow, siloed operations in mid‑2016. Its separate data centers and development teams created handoff bottlenecks and lengthy release cycles (four to six weeks), and the company needed to adopt DevOps practices, move to containers and microservices, automate delivery, and avoid a costly hardware refresh to stay competitive.

IAC migrated all five business units—more than 50 websites—to AWS in under 12 months using EC2, EBS, S3, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS and the AWS Migration Acceleration Program/Enterprise Support. The move enabled instant QA environments, automated deployments, and a shift to containerized microservices; the company now ships software four to six times per day (vs. weeks), cut operating costs by about $15 million annually, and improved its ability to recruit engineering talent.

IAC Publishing

Maxx Lobo

Vice President of Platform & Cloud Services