Case Study: CBC/Radio-Canada achieves 200% performance boost and faster search with Elastic on Azure

Radio-Canada enhances end-user search experiences and streamlines content management with Elasticsearch

Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s national French‑language digital media service, provides news, streaming entertainment, music and sports to millions of users. Facing growing competition and running two separate Elasticsearch instances, the broadcaster needed to consolidate onto Microsoft Azure to boost search and CMS performance, reduce costs, and complete the migration with minimal downtime and disruption to many production teams.

Working with Elastic, Radio‑Canada consolidated its Elasticsearch instances on Azure with a validated switchover plan that limited go‑live to just two hours. The migration delivered a 200% improvement in indexing and search speed, significantly lower operational costs, smoother content management and a better personalized user experience, with ongoing support from Elastic that helped extend adoption across the organization.

CBC/Radio-Canada

Frederic Landry

Technical Manager