Supercell is a game company based in Helsinki, Finland, with offices in San Francisco, Seoul and Shanghai. Since our launch in 2010, we've brought five games to the global market – Hay Day, Clash of Clans, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Our dream is to create great games that as many people as possible play for years and that are remembered forever.
The main challenge in Supercell is the large scale of things… This also means that for the backup solution, we need to be able to create the backups simultaneously from all of the clusters to reduce the inconsistency. At the same time, we want to create the backup so that there is no performance impact for the players.
Leo Linnamaa, Senior Server Engineer, Supercell
Liberty Mutual Insurance
Since 1912, we've grown into the fifth largest global property and casualty insurer based on 2022 gross written premium. We also rank 86 on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the US based on 2022 revenue. At Liberty Mutual Insurance we work hard every day to support our customers and our people, so they can protect their families, build their businesses and invest in their futures.
App teams are much happier, much higher adoption of backups. They don't have to do a whole lot now. All they got to do is tag. We have much better coverage now for disaster recovery and security requirements… And it greatly simplified the process for us because now it's all native AWS stuff. We don't need to worry about dealing with third parties or licensing of other tools or whatever else.
Ted Gilsenan, Technology Architect, Liberty Mutual Insurance
Games 24x7
Games24x7 is an Indian technology leader that offers online games worldwide. It was founded in 2006, in the early days of online gaming, and has a portfolio of both skill games and casual games. The company uses behavioral science and artificial intelligence to provide personalized gaming experiences. Its highly popular games are RummyCircle, which is an online real-money rummy game, and My11Circle, which is a fantasy sports game.
The great benefits of using AWS Backup are the configuration simplicity and solution scalability.
Since 1938, Fannie Mae has provided a reliable source of affordable mortgage financing across the country. We support renters, homebuyers, and homeowners by creating solutions that expand access to affordable housing opportunities. We do not originate loans or lend money directly to borrowers. Instead, we acquire mortgage loans made by lenders and then issue guaranteed mortgage-backed securities (MBS) backed by those loans that attract investors. In 2022, Fannie Mae enabled the financing of approximately 2.6 million home purchases, refinancing, and rental units.
One thing that every business continuity framework could use is a source of truth for data that we can go back to, something that's immune to corruption or tampering, that we know will always be pristine. AWS Backup Vault Lock provides that as an optional feature on AWS Backup Vault. Anything you put in that vault is going to be immutable for the duration of that retention period. You can't change it, Amazon can't change it.
John Simon, Fellow Cloud Infrastructure, Fannie Mae
FINRA
Every investor in America relies on one thing: fair financial markets. To protect investors and ensure the market’s integrity, FINRA—the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority—is a government-authorized not-for-profit organization that oversees U.S. broker-dealers. We work every day to ensure that everyone can participate in the market with confidence.
FINRA is authorized by Congress to protect America’s investors by making sure the broker-dealer industry operates fairly and honestly. We oversee more than 624,000 brokers across the country—and analyze billions of daily market events.
We're rolling out AWS Backup to help us get better management of our snapshots as we copy and move them around across Regions and the retention of them.
Matthew Mauriello, Principal Cloud Architect, FINRA
Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, helping customers adapt and thrive in a changing world. Workday applications for financial management, human resources, planning, spend management, and analytics have been adopted by thousands of organizations around the world and across industries—from medium-sized businesses to more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500.
AWS Backup centralizes all of our backup infrastructure in one place, freeing up our developers’ time so they can focus on building and enhancing apps.
Paul O’Flynn, Principal DevOps Engineer, Workday
Santos
Santos is one of the leading independent oil and gas producers in the Asia-Pacific region, supplying the energy needs of homes, businesses, and major industries across Australia and Asia.
AWS Backup reduced operational overhead by 50%, saving us days and weeks of maintaining and scheduling scripts for backups. The ease of implementing AWS Backup helped us jump-start our backup automation, which gave us the peace of mind that our backups meet compliance and removed the operational burden.
Gavin Boyce, Solutions Architect, Santos
Prophix
Prophix helps mid-market companies achieve their goals more successfully with innovative, cloud-based Corporate Performance Management (CPM) software. With Prophix, finance leaders improve profitability and minimize risk by automating budgeting, forecasting, and reporting and put the focus back on what matters most – uncovering business opportunities.
The Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) backup feature has been extremely valuable in allowing us to maintain application consistent image-level backups of Amazon EBS volumes in a transparent and non-disruptive manner, minimizing downtime, allowing us to maintain key service-level objectives. The VSS backup seamless integration with AWS Backup has enabled us to take advantage of a cost-effective and scalable backup solution. We can now be assured that all of our business-critical transactional data is protected.
Geoff Ng, SVP Product & Technology, Prophix
World Wide Technology
Founded in 1990, WWT has grown to become a global technology solution provider with $13.4 billion in annual revenue. With thousands of IT engineers, hundreds of application developers, and unmatched labs for testing and deploying technology at scale, WWT helps customers bridge the gap between IT and the business.
The cloud journey for enterprises is complex, requiring new approaches in many traditional IT areas such as network, data, and security. Having a comprehensive multi-account backup strategy is an important waypoint on that journey. With AWS Backup, the introduction of the cross-account backup feature enables our customers to meet the security requirements of their businesses, providing data protection against insider threats, ransomware, and disasters. The ability to maintain backup and recovery from a centralized solution is critical for many of our enterprise customers. For WWT's architects and engineers, it is a powerful tool that they can incorporate into customer environments.
