“Our Online Games have become more stable than ever, thanks to team Flentas for helping us re-architect, migrate and manage our backend services on the cloud.”
Vikash JaiswalFounderLudo King
Gaming · Cloud Migration & Modernization · AWS
How Gametion migrated Ludo King's backend to AWS and reduced infrastructure costs by 40%
Gametion Technologies is one of India's fastest-growing gaming companies, with Ludo King as its most successful digital board game. With a global user base of over 500 million, growing traffic was putting pressure on its existing PaaS-hosted backend, while rising platform costs made the model increasingly difficult to sustain. Flentas re-architected the multiplayer backend, designed a scalable AWS foundation, and executed a phased cloud migration with performance testing to improve scalability, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Gametion (Ludo King)
- 500M+ global users
- India's #1 gaming app on Android
- #1 game on App Store India in 2020
At a Glance
- Reduction in infrastructure costs
- 40%
- Global user base
- 500M+
- Downtime during migration
- Minimal
The Challenge
A PaaS environment struggling to keep up with rapid growth
As Ludo King's user base and traffic grew, the limitations of its existing platform became increasingly visible.
Performance issues
The backend was hosted entirely on a PaaS platform, but increasing user traffic was creating ongoing application performance issues.
Limited scalability
The existing architecture wasn't designed to scale efficiently with rapidly increasing DAU and MAU.
Rising infrastructure costs
The cost of maintaining the PaaS environment had become a significant concern as usage increased.
Need for greater control
Gametion wanted to build its own cloud-based backend and game operations platform rather than remain dependent on the existing PaaS environment.
The Approach
A re-architected backend and phased migration to AWS
Flentas worked closely with the Ludo King team to understand the existing architecture, redesign the multiplayer backend, and establish a scalable cloud foundation before migrating workloads.
Re-architected the backend and multiplayer engine to improve scalability, performance, and operational efficiency.
Created architecture blueprints to establish a scalable AWS foundation and define the target-state infrastructure before migration.
Conducted load and performance testing to identify bottlenecks, validate the redesigned architecture, and determine how the backend would respond as traffic increased.
Executed a phased migration from the existing PaaS platform to AWS, gradually moving services while maintaining normal application operations throughout the transition.
Business Outcome
More scalable, cost-efficient, and easier to operate
40% reduction in infrastructure costs
Following the migration away from the existing PaaS environment.
Improved scalability
With the redesigned backend and AWS foundation built to support continued growth in user traffic.
Minimal downtime during migration
Allowing Ludo King to maintain normal application operations throughout the transition.
Better troubleshooting
Giving teams greater ability to identify and resolve backend issues quickly.
Improved operational efficiency
With the modernized cloud architecture providing greater speed, agility, and control.
Technologies & Partners
Built on the AWS cloud migration stack
- AWS
- Cloud infrastructure
- Scalable backend architecture
- Load & performance testing
- Phased cloud migration
Common Questions
What gaming companies usually ask about this kind of cloud migration
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