Case Study: 6waves achieves rapid scaling, simplified operations, and cost‑effective game hosting with Amazon Web Services

6waves - Customer Case Study

6waves Limited is a leading international publisher and developer of social games on Facebook, reaching more than 50 million monthly players with titles like Happy Harvest and Mall World. The company struggled with rented physical servers that required repetitive manual configuration, time-consuming updates, and continuous hardware monitoring and repairs.

By moving to AWS (Amazon EC2, EBS, S3, and Elastic Load Balancing) and using custom AMIs and security groups, 6waves can launch preconfigured instances in minutes, decouple storage for simpler upgrades and disaster recovery, and centralize security and cost tracking by game. The change cut operational overhead, sped deployments, improved scalability and reliability, and delivered greater flexibility and cost efficiency while the team evaluates Auto Scaling for further optimization.

6waves

Cosmos Tong

System Administrator