Case Study: MovieTickets.com achieves 1,000,000 requests per minute and 33% faster performance with Rackspace Technology

Movietickets.com scales up for the big picture with AWS

MovieTickets.com, a leading advance online movie ticketing service and subsidiary of Fandango Media, faced severe traffic surges during major film releases that overwhelmed its on‑premises customer‑facing infrastructure. The company needed to migrate its entire customer‑facing stack to AWS in under a month to handle unpredictable, large-scale spikes.

Onica by Rackspace Technology designed and deployed a PCI‑compliant, highly available AWS environment and completed the migration in three weeks. The team incrementally ramped and repeatedly tested the system (including failure scenarios), achieving 1,000,000 requests per minute with zero downtime and delivering more than a 33% performance improvement while keeping the site faster and more responsive.

Movietickets.com

Craig Lefkowitz

Director of Information Systems