Case Study: Sesame Workshop achieves global reach and scalable hybrid cloud with Rackspace Technology

Sesame Workshop expands international engagement

Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, produces educational content that reaches children in more than 150 countries and some 56 million viewers each month. Their legacy on‑premises IT—two separate data centers and a small staff—was constraining digital growth and limiting the organization’s ability to scale international streaming and interactive experiences.

Partnering with Rackspace, Sesame Workshop moved to a hybrid public‑private cloud with Fanatical Support for AWS, automated their video asset management and built a repeatable, scalable platform for mobile and OTT. The transformation delivered global, flexible content delivery, richer engagement analytics, 99.99% uptime and a cloud architecture that accelerates new properties and future migrations while letting the team focus on mission‑driven content.

Sesame Workshop

Shadrach Kisten

Senior VP of IT and Digital Media Engineering