Case Study: King achieves global delivery of mobile games to 200+ countries with Amazon CloudFront

King Using Amazon CloudFront to Deliver Mobile Games to Over 200 Countries

King, a leading social and mobile game developer with 364 million players in over 200 countries and 1.6 billion game plays per day (Q1 2015), faced the challenge of delivering fresh game content to users on varied networks (including 2G/3G), limited bandwidth, and intermittent connectivity. To meet these global delivery and performance needs, King selected Amazon CloudFront as their content delivery solution.

By using Amazon CloudFront’s global edge network, API-driven management, and tight integration with S3/EC2, King now delivers hundreds of terabytes per day—spiking to 0.5+ petabytes during major launches—while keeping origin fetch costs low. The move to Amazon CloudFront produced measurable improvements in latency, responsiveness and load times, enabling faster content updates and a better user experience for millions of players.

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