Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon company, announced today that NetEase Games, which ranks among the top 10 * in global gaming revenue, chose AWS to accelerate global market development. As a developer and operator of several well-known PC and mobile games in China, NetEase Games relies on the infrastructure of more than ten regions in the world of AWS, and has built a game dynamic scaling technology based on AWS services, monitoring applications, automatically adjusting capacity, and achieving overseas games. Rapid business growth, cost savings, and the ultimate gaming experience for players around the world.
In 2015, Netease mobile games began to be distributed overseas, and AWS services were also used at that time. Currently, thousands of Amazon EC2 cloud service instances are used in different regions of AWS worldwide. On AWS, NetEase Games has built hundreds of service clusters, respectively running different game backend services issued by NetEase Games in various regions, as well as common game user platforms and database middleware platforms. By using the AWS global backbone network, NetEase game players can enjoy a faster and more stable network connection, especially in some remote areas, the network performance has been greatly improved. Netease Games has also built an excellent scalable architecture based on AWS services, on the one hand to support the rapid growth of game players, on the other hand to save costs when players visit the trough, the cost savings can be up to 53%. In addition, by upgrading to Amazon EC2 next-generation instances based on Nitro technology and Amazon EC2 A1 instances based on ARM-based processors, Netease Games has achieved strong performance improvements and cost savings. For example, "Wild Action" is a tactical competitive game developed by NetEase Games, which has created 35 million downloads in Japan, and has been ranked first in the iOS best-selling list in Japan in May and June 2019. By using a new generation of Amazon EC2 M5 instances for the game "Wild Action" and replacing Amazon EC2 M4 instances, NetEase Games achieved a 40% cost savings. Through Amazon VPC, NetEase Games divides its IT infrastructure into hundreds of isolated and secure virtual networks, and Amazon VPC supports gateways (Gateway) are very rich, including Internet Gateway (IGW), NAT Gateway, Peering Gateway, Virtual Private Gateway, Transit Gateway, etc., facilitate NetEase games to flexibly design large-scale VPC network interconnection architecture, simplifying configuration and management.
Tan Jianrong, senior director of NetEase Game Operations and Infrastructure Department, said, "I am very pleased to choose AWS. As the pioneer of global cloud computing, AWS has gained industry leadership in cloud infrastructure, service types, operating experience, and global network coverage. Recognized. NetEase Games is committed to creating high-quality games that are worthy of love for players, bringing players top-level gaming experience. Choosing AWS as an infrastructure platform provides a more solid guarantee for NetEase Games ’overseas business development, allowing us to be more calm "We will develop our business
locally," said Zhang Wenyi, AWS global vice president and executive director of Greater China. "I am very pleased to see NetEase's success in overseas markets. One of AWS 'missions in China is to use the world's leading technology and global resources. Help Chinese companies to use cloud computing in depth, accelerate transformation and innovation, and compete in the global market. The success of NetEase has set another typical example for Chinese companies going overseas. "
* Data source: Game market research company Newzoo's report https: // newzoo.com/insights/rankings/top-25-companies-game-revenues /
