Case Study: Miniclip achieves 97% faster time-to-market and 69% lower infrastructure costs with Amazon Web Services

Miniclip - Customer Case Study

Miniclip, a global gaming company with 70 million active users, struggled with slow hardware procurement, limited scalability, and security/compliance demands while running its own U.S. data center and European colocation. Deploying a new game took weeks, capital expenditures were high, and developers were frequently pulled into performance and operations work instead of building new features.

After migrating to AWS and adopting services like EC2/ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, Route 53, Elastic Beanstalk and Redshift, Miniclip gained on‑demand scalability, managed security controls and much faster prototyping—enabling launches in hours instead of weeks (e.g., two World Cup games). The move delivered five‑9s availability, cut latency from 4.5s to 2s, reduced time‑to‑market by 97%, infrastructure costs by 69%, manpower for ops by 66%, OPEX by 60% and CAPEX by 75%.

Miniclip

Dave Shanker

Head of Technical Operations