Case Study: Toronto Star achieves faster, consistent deployments—cutting deployment time from 3 hours to 20 minutes with Amazon Web Services (AWS OpsWorks)

Toronto Star - Customer Case Study

Star Media Group, publisher of the Toronto Star and thestar.com, migrated its content management system to Adobe CQ in 2012 and struggled with manually managing software deployments and environment configurations across many servers. Manual processes and one-off scripting caused errors, inconsistencies, and made it hard to create identical test environments for patches and updates.

The team adopted AWS OpsWorks with Chef recipes and Jenkins continuous integration to automate server configuration and app deployment, and to clone production stacks for testing. The change delivered uniform, reliable environments, cut deployment time from three hours to 20 minutes, reduced errors and experimentation risk, and allowed staff to spin up and tear down test stacks quickly while focusing on higher-value work.

Toronto Star

Erik Kugel

Star Media Group Cloud Operations Specialist