Global Gaming Infrastructure

For teams shipping fast under high security demands: global game acceleration, DDoS protection, and high-frequency compute — delivering a smooth session for players everywhere.

What's included

• Deploy close to players for low latency
• Game shield blocks cheats & attacks
• High-frequency instances for stable FPS
• Elastic scale for launch-day spikes

What games demand from infrastructure

The biggest difference from ordinary web workloads is that latency is felt in real time. A few hundred milliseconds on a web page goes unnoticed; in a game it is visible stutter and out-of-sync input, and it hits retention. Players are distributed by geography, so servers follow the players — you do not talk players into accepting distance.

The other trait is an extreme load curve: launch day, patch days, and holidays bring several times normal concurrency, while off-peak utilization is often very low.

Ranking latency, protection, and scaling

Latency is a hard constraint and nearly impossible to retrofit — pick the wrong server location and no amount of later tuning recovers it, so decide during deployment planning. Protection priority depends on whether the game has visibility: an unmarketed title is unlikely to be targeted, but once you start promoting, DDoS becomes a matter of when.

Scaling can be arranged later, but the rules must be configured in advance. Most launch incidents are not a shortage of machines but the absence of a time window to scale.

Planning capacity for launch

Do not buy for your estimated peak concurrent users. The steadier approach splits the architecture into stateless and stateful halves: run stateless logic on autoscaling capacity, partition stateful matchmaking services by how many players each can hold, and open capacity as launch actually progresses.

And budget time for cold starts — pre-warming some instances is far more reliable than waiting for a monitoring alert to trigger a scale-out.

Frequently asked questions