HAPPY PLUS for Women's Lifestyle — Migrated to AWS
Shueisha Publishing Co., Ltd.
Applied Services: Amazon Route 53, AWS Migration
Shueisha Publishing Co., Ltd., Japan's leading manga and magazine publisher, operates "HAPPY PLUS" — a lifestyle-focused website featuring curated content from their women's magazine portfolio including MAQUIA, SPUR, LEE, MORE, BAILA, Marisol, éclat, nonno, and Seventeen. Classmethod migrated the entire HAPPY PLUS platform to AWS cloud infrastructure, enabling flexible scaling and significantly reducing infrastructure costs.
50% Cost Reduction on Security and Backup
The migration to AWS, with Amazon Route 53 providing highly available and scalable DNS, reduced initial infrastructure expenses for security and automated backup features by approximately 50%. The flexible, cloud-native architecture also enables scaling during traffic surges from viral magazine content.
Publications on HAPPY PLUS
Results Achieved
- • 50% cost reduction on security and automated backup infrastructure
- • HAPPY PLUS entirely migrated to flexible, scalable AWS cloud
- • Amazon Route 53 provides reliable DNS for nine magazine properties
- • Elastic scaling handles traffic spikes from popular magazine content
This case study uses Amazon Route 53 and AWS Migration.
Classmethod migrates media and publishing platforms to AWS — delivering cost reductions on infrastructure while enabling the elastic scaling that viral content demands.