A Brief About CloudMinister And AWS Relationship

Our vision is to deliver groundbreaking games that captivate audiences, foster a thriving gaming community, and push the boundaries of interactive entertainment. At Skillwinz, we strive to build a legacy of excellence in the gaming industry, nurturing top talent and generating substantial value for our players and stakeholders. Our commitment is to be at the forefront of gaming innovation, producing the best games and leading the industry with creativity and integrity.

Business Need:

Skillwinz has developed a gaming application for digital devices, hosted on AWS in the Singapore region. The applications are built using a multi-tier architecture with the following technology stack:

• 1.Application Front End: React
• 2.API Server: Node.js
• 3.Database: RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service)
• 4.Caching: Redis

Skillwinz intends to migrate to the AWS Mumbai Region. As a critical gaming application, Skillwinz requires a highly available, scalable, and resilient architecture, adhering to AWS best practices.

Requirements:

Latency Reduction and Performance Enhancement:

By moving the infrastructure closer to the target audience in India, Skillwinz aims to reduce latency and enhance the application's performance.

Ensuring a seamless migration without any disruption to end users is crucial.

Reliable and Scalable Infrastructure:

Skillwinz needs a highly reliable and scalable infrastructure on AWS.

High availability must be maintained for every component of the infrastructure.

CI/CD Approach:

To streamline the deployment process and facilitate faster releases, Skillwinz wants to adopt a CI/CD approach.

This involves automating the build, testing, and deployment processes for their React and Node.js applications.

AWS Cost Optimization:

Skillwinz aims to optimize their monthly AWS consumption to reduce unnecessary expenses.

Identifying areas where costs can be optimized without compromising performance and reliability is essential.

Ultimately, Skillwinz wants to optimize their overall monthly billing on AWS.

• Industry: Gaming and Entertainment
• Offering: AWS Setup and Migration

AWS Services:

Skillwinz utilizes the following AWS services:

• -EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud)
• -EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service)
• -ECR (Elastic Container Registry)
• -Redis
• -RDS (Amazon Relational Database Service)
• -ElastiCache
• -CodePipeline
• -CodeBuild
• -CodeDeploy
• -S3 (Simple Storage Service)
• -CloudWatch
• -CloudTrail
• -AWS Config
• -Guard Duty
• -SES (Simple Email Service)
• -KMS (Key Management Service)

Implementation:

Our AWS Certified Solutions Architects conducted detailed workshop sessions with Skillwinz to understand their requirements and pain points with the existing setup. During the discovery phase, we also captured information about the size of the data to be migrated and the acceptable downtime.

AWS best practices and business continuity principles were applied and followed throughout the implementation, as explained below:

1. Migration to AWS Mumbai Region:

Based on discussions and considering the target audience location, the team recommended Skillwinz migrate their infrastructure to the AWS Mumbai Region. This will reduce latency and improve application performance.

2. High Availability and Horizontal Scaling:

Considering the critical nature of the application, the React frontend application and Node.js API were deployed in auto-scaling groups spanning multiple availability zones, ensuring high availability and horizontal scaling.

RDS is deployed in MultiAZ mode to provide automatic failover with data redundancy.

Redis and ElastiCache are configured to support high availability and are deployed across multiple availability zones in the Mumbai region.

3. DevOps Pipelines:

Well-defined DevOps pipelines were created to automate application deployments using AWS native DevOps services, including CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy.

4. Cost Optimization:

To optimize the overall monthly AWS cost, we proposed implementing AWS services like AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Budgets.

By studying resource utilization, we recommended right-sizing the infrastructure and opting for a Reserved Instance/Savings Plan.

Outcomes:

Reduced Latency: Migrating to the AWS Mumbai Region significantly reduced latency and improved application performance.

High Availability: The application now benefits from high availability and automatic failover mechanisms, ensuring minimal downtime.

Scalability: Auto-scaling groups allow the application to handle varying loads efficiently.

Efficient Deployments: DevOps pipelines streamline the deployment process, reducing manual errors and facilitating faster releases.

Cost Savings: Implementing cost optimization strategies reduced unnecessary expenses and ensured efficient resource allocation.

Reaping Rewards:

With this solution, we provided Skillwinz with a secure, reliable, and scalable infrastructure on AWS, offering high availability. Here are the key benefits:

High Availability: Skillwinz is experiencing an impressive uptime of more than 99.95% with our resilient architecture. This includes a highly reliable infrastructure, minimized downtime, and exceptional application availability.

Scalability: Implementing applications into autoscaling groups helps manage the fluctuating demand for resources, ensuring seamless gaming experiences for users.

Performance Improvement: Migrating the application to the AWS Mumbai Region significantly improved performance and reduced latency issues, enhancing the overall user experience.

Efficient Deployments: With the DevOps pipelines, the risk of manual errors was completely removed, facilitating smoother and faster application deployments.

Cost Optimization: Our cost optimization strategies have reduced unnecessary expenses and ensured efficient resource allocation, helping Skillwinz manage their AWS consumption effectively.

Overall, Skillwinz now benefits from a robust, high-performing, and cost-efficient infrastructure that supports their gaming application and future growth.

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