Why Zynga moved from AWS to its own private cloud - zCloud

greenm3.com (Oct 22 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

1. Zynga has an engineering post where they introduce their private cloud.  This post is a bit old, but it provides good details on why Zynga chose to move out of AWS for its own private cloud. Now, Zynga still does use AWS, but they are thinking from a business/financial perspective.  Zynga has a hybrid cloud infrastructure, both public and private. While our private cloud infrastructure has been growing quickly, Zynga also uses the AWS public cloud to fuel our rapid growth. Our use of AWS, while very important to our business, comes with an operating expense. Essentially, we have been trading monthly operating expenses against longer-term amortized capital expense. Yet, sometimes the pace of our growth forces us to make that tradeoff. For example, when CityVille rapidly grew to millions of users in just six weeks, we had to grow our server infrastructure at a pace that kept up ... (Read Full Article)

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