Riot Games が AWS を利用してゲームを改善

Mobile gaming company Gameloft was founded in France in 2000 and now employs 4,600 people across 19 studios worldwide. Its 190-game portfolio includes the critically acclaimed Asphalt racing series and Despicable Me: Minion Rush, which has been downloaded more than 100 million times. Most of Gameloft’s titles run online, which requires a sizable infrastructure. Gameloft was continually adding physical servers and data centers to support hundreds of millions of players a month. The goal was to have as little downtime as possible and to handle traffic spikes of up to 50X the normal load during game launches. However, costs soon became unmanageable, and teams were spending too much time on routine maintenance rather than developing great gaming experiences. In this video, Gilles Chervy, head of infrastructure at Gameloft, explains how the company moved its gaming servers to Amazon Web Services (AWS), improving the player experience, simplifying management, optimizing costs, and reducing time to market for new games.

Supercell is a mobile games company founded in 2010 in Helsinki, Finland. It has offices in the United States, China, Japan, Korea, and Denmark. Supercell has 100 million daily active users with 4 million concurrent players at peak times, producing 500 TB of data a day. In this video, Heikki Verta, head of engineering at Supercell, explains how its 20-person game teams run some of the world’s most popular titles, including Clash of Clans and Boom Beach. The teams have a high degree of autonomy over the games they build and maintain. On the Clash of Clans team, 3 server developers maintain more than 2,000 Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and 300 MySQL databases, as well as developing the game. They achieve this with loosely coupled, well-architected microservices, using infrastructure as code to automate scaling and recovery. The company also makes use of managed services like Amazon DynamoDB where possible, so teams spend less time on infrastructure administration.

Wildlife Studios uses AWS to optimize cloud spending, gain better visibility into cloud usage, and reduce annual AWS spend by 45 percent.

Social Quantum, an established, mid-sized Russian game developer needed to reduce costs and reduce time to market. It has already shut down 50 legacy servers and improved reliability using AWS.