Case Study: Wildlife Conservation Society achieves scalable, cost-efficient cloud production environment with Equinix

Wildlife Conservation Society - Customer Case Study

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), a nonprofit founded in 1895 that runs roughly 500 conservation projects across more than 60 countries, needed to launch a public site for its Mannahatta 2409 sustainability project but worried its existing technology and limited resources couldn’t support the anticipated traffic and new data/models required for production.

Equinix Professional Services for Cloud (EPS Cloud) evaluated options, recommended a relational database approach, and implemented monitoring and load-testing (using tools like New Relic and BlazeMeter) to produce actionable metrics. They tested and optimized AWS configurations, enabling WCS to launch on time with a scalable, cost-efficient environment, near-real-time performance monitoring, and pay-as-you-go billing that avoids idle on‑premises capacity.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Kim Fisher

Spatial Analyst & Developer