While saving money is often the primary motivator,
there are many other compelling reasons for game
studios to move to the cloud.
5
Game studio
transformations
with AWS
3.0
Benefit: Cost savings
Decrease operational costs during low-demand
periods using serverless architectures and servers
with automatic scaling.
Purchased in 2012 and running on its internal data
centers (IDC), ArenaNet's on-premises hardware
was starting to fail more often. And fixing it wasn't
the best use of time. Instead, the studio wanted to
experiment—but the need to order and provision
faster hardware and better networking services were
huge blockers to this plan. ArenaNet began migrating
some of its live on-premises game workloads for
Guild Wars 2 to AWS in 2017. Moving multiplayer
servers to the cloud helped ArenaNet scale up quickly
to accommodate twice its typical active player
count. After a successful deployment, ArenaNet
began migrating its remaining microservices and
reduced operational costs by 50 percent.
