Introduction

As the wave of digital transformation sweeps across the globe, more and more businesses are migrating to the cloud to achieve greater flexibility and scalability. As a professional cloud service provider, FutureCloud is dedicated to offering tailored cloud solutions that help our clients achieve business growth and improve efficiency. This article introduces a successful case where FutureCloud assisted the well-known Russian mobile game developer, Playrix, in migrating to the AWS platform, showcasing our professional capabilities and service value.

Client Background

Playrix is a renowned mobile game developer based in Russia, specializing in casual mobile games, particularly in genres such as match-three puzzles and town-building simulations. As their business expanded, Playrix faced increasing operational pressure and needed to improve system availability and scalability while reducing operational workload.

Challenges

Playrix was unfamiliar with AWS cloud services and required professional technical support to quickly design and deploy a new architecture, as well as establish an automated alert system to ensure business continuity. In addition, they needed to ensure system security, reliability, and compliance to meet the growing demands of their business.

Solution

FutureCloud customized a cloud architecture solution for Playrix, focusing on the following key aspects:

• High Availability: Deployed the business across multiple availability zones to ensure business continuity and stability.
• Network Security: Implemented strategies such as the separation of public and private subnets and database subnet isolation to protect network security.
• Storage and Logging: Used EFS for shared storage, ELB for load balancing, and ElasticSearch to collect logs, ensuring efficient data management and analysis.
• Performance Monitoring: Utilized CloudWatch for monitoring and alerts, and automatically scaled EC2 instances to ensure system performance stability.
• Database Services: Employed RDS MySQL with multi-replication and managed sensitive information through Secrets Manager to ensure data security and reliability.
• Audit and Compliance: Used CloudTrail to record operations and stored archived data in S3, meeting compliance requirements.
• Security: Implemented KMS encryption, IAM least-privilege access, and MFA enforcement to ensure system security.
• Data Analytics: Leveraged DMS to sync data to Redshift for big data analysis and mining.
• Global Distribution: Utilized CloudFront to reduce access latency and enhance the user experience.

Project Results

With FutureCloud’s professional services, Playrix successfully migrated its gaming platform to AWS, achieving the following outcomes:

• Performance Improvement: The system’s availability and scalability were significantly enhanced, meeting the demands of rapid business growth.
• Cost Savings: Through automation and optimization, operational and infrastructure costs were reduced.
• Enhanced Security: A range of security measures were implemented to ensure the protection of the system and data.
• Compliance Met: The solution met relevant compliance requirements, reducing compliance risks.
• Improved Data Analytics Capabilities: Using big data analytics tools, Playrix gained deeper insights from data, supporting business decision-making.

Conclusion

FutureCloud’s expert cloud services have helped Playrix achieve business growth and efficiency improvements, demonstrating our professional capabilities and service value in the cloud services sector. Looking ahead, we remain committed to providing high-quality cloud services, helping our clients achieve digital transformation and business success.