Each game has unique development and infrastructure needs, and Peak Games tries to contain costs for each. A particular game may require more server resources to scale quickly, so the company allocates more than enough resources to handle the load, and then scales down. By using this strategy, the company has reduced its overall operational costs by about 15 percent and its time to market. “By using AWS, we’ve experienced a 75 percent decrease in time to market, which is one of our most important success factors,” Sahin says. “We’re developing new games constantly. Thanks to AWS, our devops team can set up the infrastructure for our new games while supporting our existing games.”

Peak Games has also been able to improve its A/B testing. When conducting A/B testing, the team creates log files for later analysis. With AWS, the team can store and analyse a high volume of logs cost-effectively with Amazon EC2.

Since using AWS, the time to provision a new server has been reduced from 4–6 hours to 5–10 minutes, greatly simplifying the team’s process and enabling its members to focus more on games and less on infrastructure. “If we had to manage our own dedicated servers, we might need two times more staff than we have,” Sahin says. AWS has also enhanced Peak Games’ backup system, increased availability and scalability for millions of gamers per week, increased flexibility in architecture changes and optimisations, and eliminated capacity planning.