Case Study: WorkCast scales digital events by 900% with Leighton’s cloud-native solution

WorkCast scales digital events by 900% with Leighton

WorkCast, an enterprise-level virtual events platform, faced a significant challenge when the COVID-19 pandemic caused unprecedented growth. Their existing system could not scale beyond 25,000 concurrent users, and they needed a solution to handle at least 250,000 users while managing unpredictable demand and reducing running costs. They partnered with the vendor Leighton to address these scalability and cost-efficiency issues.

Leighton implemented a cloud-native solution using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to create an elastic scaling infrastructure. This new system seamlessly integrated with WorkCast's platform, enabling it to support over 250,000 concurrent users—a 900% increase in capacity. The solution also resulted in significant cost savings through automatic resource scaling and improved operational efficiency for the WorkCast team.

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