Case Study: The Washington Post achieves agile, scalable, and secure Arc Publishing with Amazon Web Services

The Washington Post - Customer Case Study

The Washington Post built Arc Publishing, a modern SaaS digital publishing platform, to help newsrooms deliver fast, innovative experiences across web, video, apps, subscriptions, and ads. As Arc grew from an internal system into a multi-customer platform, the team faced the challenge of moving from a monolithic CMS to a microservices architecture on AWS while preserving agility, meeting strict security and availability requirements, and adding governance for many customer accounts.

To solve this, The Post partnered with AWS DevOps expert Stelligent to “automate everything”: re‑designing the AWS architecture, building automated account bootstrap tools, infrastructure-as-code pipelines, security guardrails, and a centralized AMI pipeline, and leveraging containerization and serverless patterns. The result is a scalable, governed platform that supports 50+ deployments per hour across 100 microservices, enables rapid iteration and reliable operations, and has reduced maintenance by leaning on native AWS services while improving security and customer satisfaction.

The Washington Post

Patrick Cullen

Principal Technical Architect