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SEGA’s Digital Strategy with AWS
1. SEGA & Amazon Web Services
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
2. Scope of Review
• Introduction
• Building Online infrastructure and team
• SEGA's Shift towards online
• Shift towards EC2
• Benefits
• Future projects
• Conclusion
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
3. Introduction
• Online gaming & me
• Managing infrastructure
• Networking
• Capacity planning
• Security
• Staff & costs
• Expensive business
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
4. Traditional Online Infrastructure
• Hardware –
Networking, Servers, power, cooling, upgra
des , failure replacements
• Co-Lo & Geography
• Managing carriers
• CAPEX
• Staff costs
• Inflexible hardware
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
5. SEGA's shift towards online
• Changes in gaming
• Changes in game design
• Revenue models
• Stats & analytics
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
6. Amazon AWS
• Rethink - change the way view technology
• Removing the guesswork
• Dev / beta / live
• Concurrent usage – day, year, event
• Upgrades and game evolution
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
7. EC2 Benefits
• EC2 low barriers to entry
• Location of game environments
• capacity on demand
• auto scaling environments
• scaling up to meet demand
• scaling down - conserve money
• Game or web server spikes
• Spinning up duplicate environments
• Usual tech – Windows, Linux , load balancers
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
8. Future Projects
• CDN - video content, game patches
• CloudFront- pricing by bandwidth, on demand
• Private R&D environments - white listed
• Experimental server farms for rendering
• Live video streaming
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012
9. Conclusion
• Reduced server costs by 50%+
• More agility for test and live environments
• AWS - expanding portfolio of services
• Easy integration with third-party architectures
EC2/Hadoop/RDS stats logging infrastructure
• Identity and Access Management makes it
easy to give staff limited access
Stuart Wright
Powering Games with AWS – 24th Jan 2012