News International (NI) is looking to consolidate services and generate significant cost-savings from a migration to Amazons cloud services.

The planned transition will see NI transfer three quarters of its servers over the following three years, increasing flexibility and scaling capacity.

Currently NI has 17 main data centres, the move to Amazon cloud will bring this number down. Ian McDonald, head of infrastructure and cloud at NI, said the Amazon service: “will mean two in the UK, two in the US, and two in Australia."

McDonald added that: “"We are talking about potentially 75 percent of our servers migrating to Amazon over the next three years. That is on 13,500 servers across News Corp publishing. It is a big, big change."