Digital transformation on AWS increases uptime for Grupo Milenio

What we achieved together

Thanks to its high-quality news content and dependable broadcasting services, milenio.com achieved its goal of being the number-one news organization in Mexico, according to Comscore. “This is the result of a joint project involving our entire editorial team working together, including operations, business and technology,” said Enrique Calderón, Director of Technology, Grupo Milenio. “We’d had this digital transformation objective for many years and finally managed to modernize on the cloud thanks to Rackspace Technology. The response of our users has been tremendous.”

“Our AWS solution allows us to be ready to scale at a moment’s notice, for example, to meet the demands of an audience traffic surge during elections,” said Héctor Flores, Digital Infrastructure Manager, Grupo Milenio. “Our success during elections hinges on always being the first to broadcast the latest updates from Mexico’s National Electoral Institute.”

Along with delivering dependable service to its existing customers, the news network also wants to expand its audience by moving into larger Spanish-speaking markets outside of Mexico. To reach this goal, Grupo Milenio requires a more robust architecture, a greater number of services, and a qualified support team that delivers best practices for security, backups, data centers, connectivity, and the cloud.

“We have a good strategy in place to take our organization to a higher level of digital experience for our users, and we have the best support partner in Rackspace Technology,” said Calderón.“My day-to-day technology challenges are expanding in a world where we are globally connected, where there is an ever-growing demand for digital content, where security is a bigger challenge than ever, and where we must do more with less.”