The Kennedy Center is the nation's busiest performing arts center, hosting approximately 2,000 events each year for audiences numbering more than 2 million. Since 1971, we have been bringing the world to Washington with magnificent performances of music, dance, theater, and more.
The Kennedy Center's on-premise hardware was nearing its End Of Life and the organization was spending a high percentage of their time on addressing hardware failures. The Kennedy Center worked with Kickstep Technologies to explore options which would address this concern, including upgrading their internal technology stack, outsourcing their infrastructure needs to a 3rd party or migrating their technology stack to an IaaS provider. Kickstep helped perform a TCO analysis of Kennedy's options which demonstrated that moving forward with AWS as their IaaS provider was in the long term best interest.
Kennedy Center had a number of challenges in migrating their infrastructure away from their on-prem configuration. These challenges included:
Kickstep Technologies was able to utilize several AWS services to meet the challenges presented by Kennedy Center. These included:
Benefit 1 - Central management of billing, security, auditing, and policy controls while also enabling team-level flexibility and autonomy of their respective technology and business solutions.
Benefit 2 - Reduced TCO relative to their on-premise environment. This was primarily realized by:
Benefit 3 - Better agility from two perspectives:
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