Zynga moves from AWS to its own Data Centers

greenm3.com (Oct 11 2011) Cloud Computing

1. Zynga is one of AWS largest tenants, supporting Zynga's rapid growth.  I discovered most of this information a year ago interviewing some people, and now that there is a public document, I can blog the following information. VentureBeat's Dean Takahashi reports on the disclosure in the SEC statement. Zynga planning to diversify beyond Amazon, build its own data centers July 4, 2011 | Dean Takahashi 4 Comments in Share One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it’s one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support its current customer base of more than 281 million monthly active users. For much of its four-year history, Zynga has relied on a third-party hosting company, Amazon Web Services, for the hardware infrastructure for its server-based games such as FarmVille on Facebook. But to cut costs and diversify its risks, Zynga is now investing ... (Read Full Article)

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