about Camel Games
Camel Games , founded in 2009, is China's first top is an official certification of Google market development company, for a long time, Camel Games always rely on leading technology background, is committed to become the international first-class mobile phone network game developers and operators, top for wireless value-added services market in the world of mobile gaming entertainment products, at present, the Camel Games were launched 12 Android Games, won a Google recommends seven, Blow Up, Space Physics, such as Roller Games were among the Android game classification list of the top three, Roller (Lite) highest Amazon total, second in the list of free Shot U! Was elected as the game model of the Android 2.0 conference in 2012 published "little empire" is the world's first support LBS (real) geographical position of competitive strategy games, launched after months of consecutive month running water company income more than do,
Camel Games initial business direction is made for Android stand-alone Game, with the rapid development of Internet and the growing popularity of the smart devices, Camel Games to realize online Games have a greater potential, so start transformation for network Game, under the team of 6 people, Camel Games the first online Game "little empire", 3 d urban construction with the form of a tower defense Game with quickly accumulated a large number of "fans", for its original server capacity is close to saturation, the user's response to attract good Google Play special "little empire" against doing a month-long recommended, recommended during the first week after, the global number of players show explosive growth, at the rate of tens of thousands of every day in Camel shut down the Game server, to increase the number of servers is imminent, the period of the Camel Games already has more than 20 employees, in charge of the development of Android, iOS development, art, planning, operation and administration, etc., in terms of manpower, Camel Game is very difficult to arrange a server by additional personnel in the short term expansion and maintenance work, at the same time, because the Camel Game business is in the single-player Game as the transition from the network Game, to satisfy the demand of the business development of company in the overall planning in the server (cost, time cost investment, etc.) put forward the higher request, Camel Game need to overall evaluation, and quickly make a decision,
Why use AWS
Through the understanding of the challenges and the screening of existing resources, Camel Games think with the help of the existing, stability of the available network resources is the best solution according to the present problems, through strict alignment, Camel Games finally selected well-known Amazon Web services (AWS) as a partner, with the help of Amazon EC2, EBS, CloudFront, S3 mature cloud services such as to expand the server capacity and improve the user experience,
Compared with other Internet service providers, AWS for Camel Games advantage lies in:
elastic and flexible configuration choice
Camel Games use Amazon EC2 and EBS as game server, EC2 can provide size is adjustable in the cloud computing capacity, Camel Games according to the needs of the business in a few minutes to increase or decrease capacity, perfect solve the problem before the sudden increase in the number of users, in addition, EC2 has dozens of optional configuration, can be different according to different parts of the game's calculation, memory, and network configuration, effectively improve exploitation degree, EBS can provide high availability for EC2 instances, reliability and predictable storage volume, maximize capacity flexibility,
reliable storage capacity and their content distribution network all over the world
Amazon CloudFront and S3 is Camel download Games as a resource platform, the adoption of 3 d effect, "a small empire" game image, video and other data will occupy a lot of server space, Amazon S3 is highly durable and high availability of storage capacity, allowing the entire storage infrastructure is transferred to the cloud, and its extensibility is used to deal with growing storage requirements,
At the same time, according to the characteristics of the Camel Games users dispersion, Amazon CloudFront provides global content delivery network (CDN), regardless of the players in the United States, Europe, Asia, South America or Australia can download data through its nearest node, low latency access game update and content,
high cost control and platform compatibility
From early to late operations, belongs to the startup of Camel Games have high requirements in terms of cost, AWS "on-demand paid" service approach, without previous builds, only charge according to the actual use of resources, reduce costs and improve cash flow, in addition, due to the architecture infrastructure in a short period of time, use lots of resources, AWS for Camel Games have brought significant operational advantages, remote operation to save a large amount of manpower cost, make the team more focus on their core business - the game development,
At the same time, for game companies, important to choose the platform, the AWS cloud services provide independent language and operating system, suitable for Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Node. Js and the.net software development kit, such as at the mobile game also provides for iOS and Android software development kit, Camel Games can at the same time according to need to use Linux, MySQL, its, Gcc, Redis, game development platform and technology such as Nginx,
As the source have configured the AWS YUM, Camel Games for the first time to complete environmental structures, only spent 1 day time, in the late users need to have a suit, a huge surge in Camel mirror copy Games will use an AMI, 2 hours to complete, greatly shorten the product launch time,
Camel Games server operations director yi law said: "as a startup, Camel Games on server performance index of the stability and operational convenience attaches great importance to, at the same time, that the agility is our reference price, the important factors using AWS, initially, we found that the fear of cloud computing is not the problem, AWS is a good way to meet our business needs, now, Camel Games all overseas servers are using AWS, later will continue to use,"
For more AWS in the application of game, please refer to the AWS game hosting page:
https://aws.amazon.com/cn/game-hosting/
Source: the AWS Chinese blog
