Introduction

With the rapid growth of the digital economy, the gaming industry has also ushered in new opportunities and challenges. GameFi, as an emerging business model, combines gaming with blockchain technology, offering players a new gaming experience and revenue model. However, GameFi projects face multiple challenges during their development, including issues related to technical architecture, compliance, and security. As a leading cloud service provider, FutureCloud has rich experience and technical expertise, successfully assisting many GameFi clients in optimizing their architectures, upgrading security, and controlling costs, thereby helping their businesses grow rapidly.

Case Background

Joy You is a global gaming company that focuses on platform and sandbox games and is dedicated to creating a game creation platform. In 2021, Joy You established a new studio to operate a GameFi project codenamed 721 to better meet market demand. However, the project’s early architecture was hosted on a domestic cloud provider, facing issues with compliance and platform stability, which hindered further business development.

Solution

The FutureCloud team deeply understood Joy You’s needs and challenges and customized a solution based on the AWS cloud platform, which included the following key aspects:

  • High Availability Architecture: By deploying across multiple availability zones and utilizing Auto Scaling to automatically adjust resources, the system’s high availability and elastic scalability were ensured, enabling it to flexibly handle traffic changes and avoid service disruptions.
  • Database Optimization: A MySQL master-slave architecture was built on EC2 instances to achieve read-write separation, optimizing database performance and improving data access efficiency and throughput.
  • Data Storage: Amazon S3 was used to store unstructured data, such as game resources and player data, reducing costs and enhancing data storage security.
  • Security Enhancement: Public and private subnets were separated, and IAM permissions were utilized to enhance network security and data access control, effectively preventing malicious attacks and data leaks.
  • Monitoring and Alerts: Integration with CloudWatch, EventBridge, and SNS enabled system monitoring and alerts, allowing potential issues to be identified and resolved promptly to ensure stable system operation.
  • Serverless Architecture: AWS Lambda was employed to implement a serverless architecture, simplifying operations, reducing maintenance costs, and improving development efficiency.
  • Log Auditing: CloudTrail was used to record logs for audit and troubleshooting, ensuring system security and traceability.
  • Cost Optimization: A pay-as-you-go model was used to avoid resource waste and optimize the cost structure, helping the client reduce costs and increase efficiency.

Project Outcomes

With the help of FutureCloud, Joy You successfully migrated its GameFi project to the AWS cloud platform, achieving architecture optimization and performance improvements. Specific results included:

  • Improved System Stability: Multi-AZ deployment and Auto Scaling ensured high system availability, avoiding service interruptions and improving user experience.
  • Performance Optimization: Database optimization and elastic resource scaling improved system performance, meeting the growing business demands.
  • Enhanced Security: Subnet separation, access control, and log auditing strengthened system security, effectively preventing malicious attacks and data leaks.
  • Cost Reduction: The pay-as-you-go model reduced resource waste, optimized the cost structure, and helped the client achieve cost reduction and efficiency improvement.
  • Business Growth: The optimized architecture provided a solid technical foundation for Joy You’s GameFi project, supporting its rapid business development.

Future Outlook

FutureCloud will continue to focus on providing professional cloud service solutions for GameFi clients, helping them overcome technical challenges and achieve business growth. In the future, we will continue to explore new technologies, constantly optimize our products and services, and provide clients with a safer, more reliable, and efficient cloud platform, contributing to the thriving development of the GameFi industry.