Case Study: News UK achieves rapid agility and resilient publishing with Amazon Web Services

News UK - Customer Case Study

News UK, publisher of titles such as The Sun and The Times, produces 2.4 million print copies and updates its digital products every day for more than 10 million readers. The company faced a tightly timed production window where minutes of delay could cost thousands of sales, plus the need to rapidly develop subscription and digital services—constraints made harder by six legacy datacenters and long hardware provisioning lead times.

News UK migrated key enterprise applications to AWS, using VPC isolation, encryption, Auto Scaling, multi‑AZ architecture and dedicated AWS Enterprise Support with a Technical Account Manager. The move let teams start projects the same day, spin up test environments quickly, automate instance recovery, improve resilience and quality control, and reduce costs—enabling faster time‑to‑market (for example, a Jubilee edition built in days) with a smaller, more efficient IT team.

News UK

Chris Birch

IT Director