Realizing Business Value with AWS

According to IDC, on average, over a five-year period, AWS customers realize:

Cost savings is only the beginning Study participants explained thatAWS has helped them change therole IT plays in supporting their businesses. With AWS, these organizations have leveraged more cost-effective, efficient, reliable, and agile IT operations to spur improved business results and operational efficiencies at an organizational level.”

IDC, 2018$62.9MNET PRESENT VALUEPER ORGANIZATION

637%RETURN ONINVESTMENT

Customer engagements and third-party research have revealed that customers recognize significant business benefits beyond cost savings after moving workloads to AWS.

Over a 17-month period, they achieveddramatic business value in FOUR categories:

COST SAVINGS

OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE

Business Agility is the benefit from being able to innovate more and respond faster. AWS enables customers to reduce time-to-market, develop more apps, update apps more frequently, and improve software quality.

BUSINESS AGILITY

TRANSFORM YOUR BUSINESS FROM THE INSIDE

People who come to the conclusion that the cloud is too expensive are doing something wrong.”

JAKE BURNS, VP, CLOUD SERVICES, LIVE NATION

When you know you have the ability to quickly deprovision, it makes you bolder to say yes and try new things.”

We’ve completely embraced the cloud with AWS. We’re fortunate to have such a great team here at Live Nation. With the help of AWS, we have moved from troubleshooting hardware and capacity planning to delivering true value to Live Nation and its customers.”

Cost Savings refers to the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reduction by moving to the cloud. This includes compute, storage, and network cost savings. Leveraging the benefits of elasticity, scale, and right-sizing drive significant cost savings.

Exceeding expectations

Post-migration cost optimization exercises have led to much more dramatic cost reduction than originally scoped. Cost optimization activities like right-sizing instances and volume management, have led to additional savings.

Infrastructure cost savings/avoidance from moving

to the cloud

Efficiency improvements by function on a

task-by-task basis

Benefit of improving SLAs and reducing unplanned outages

Deploying new features/applications faster and

reducing errors

COST SAVINGS STAFF PRODUCTIVITY

Removing business barriers

With AWS, Live Nation went from supporting 10 productexperiments at once to 100, spinning up instances in a day. Users are happier—after adopting AWS the Cloud Services team is consistently ranking at 9 or 10 in satisfaction.

Spotlight:

STAFF PRODUCTIVITY

Staff Productivity refers to FTE productivity gained from reducingor eliminating time spent on tasks no longer needed with the cloud.

There is definitely a reduction in man hours to fulfill a request, but that’s a linear improvement. The reduction of total cycle time is what’s exponentially valuable.”

Concentrate on the important things

Live Nation is capturing efficiency benefits in multiple areas, in particular around Procurement and Performance process areas. In addition, project requests are also being served faster. Tasks around hardware troubleshooting and tuning have been eliminated.

50%50% REDUCTION

IN TRADITIONAL IT TASKS

10xPROJECTS SUPPORTED

18%ESTIMATED SAVINGS*

58%ACTUAL SAVINGS

Live Nation Entertainment, Inc (NYSE: LYV)

announced it was moving its global IT infrastructure to

Amazon Web Services.

118applications

668servers2016 – Present

“Live Nation Selects Amazon Web Services as

Cloud Infrastructure Provider,” BusinessWire, 2017

Larry Carvalho and Matthew Marden, "Fostering Business and Organizational

Transformation to Generate Business Value with Amazon Web Services," IDC, 2018

*original business case.

OPERATIONAL RESILIENCE BUSINESS AGILITY

10xINCREASE IN

EXPERIMENTSSERVICE LEVEL

AGREEMENTBUSINESS USER SATISFACTION

90%+to 4hr6mo

AWS has enabled us to improve security while simultaneously reducing our costs.”

Operational Resilience refers to the benefit of improved security and availability. AWS customers reduce their downtime from the stability, scalability, reliability, andsecurity of the AWS environment.

Near zeroperformance complaints

Infrastructure performance is no longer an issue whereas previously Live Nation spent significant time attempting to optimize hardware specifications.

Uptime, all the time

AWS delivers improved security posture to enterprises like Live Nation, and the shared responsibility model is superior to on-premises. AWS dedicates significant resources towards ensuring that servers and hypervisors are secure, which allows IT pros to focus attention on securing applications and availability.

0%PERFORMANCECOMPLAINTS

99.999%AVAILABILITY WITH AWS

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