Case Study
Ziff Davis Manages Subsidiaries and Improves Visibility and Governance
1 Customer Case Study Media giant Ziff Davis is world famous for distributing premium content related to technology, gaming, entertainment and men’s lifestyle. Spanning 112 countries and reaching tens of millions of individuals around the globe, some of their best known digital properties include PCMag, AskMen and IGN. The challenge Part of Ziff Davis’ evolution involves acquiring other media companies, many of which are hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Over time, this made AWS management extremely complex. “Managing the cloud environments across all our subsidiaries and lines of business simply with the AWS Management Console was not sustainable,” said Charmaine Honeycutt, senior director of operations for Ziff Davis. “Over time, the sprawl grew out of control. We neede