Case Study: Rovio achieves global, scalable, and reliable gaming infrastructure with Amazon Web Services

Rovio - Customer Case Study

Rovio Entertainment, the Finland-based studio behind Angry Birds and other hit games with more than 1.7 billion downloads and a Toons channel delivering 100+ million monthly views, needed a global, cost-effective, and easily maintained infrastructure that could handle extreme traffic spikes and provide sustained, secure availability for players around the clock. Rapid growth and a worldwide audience made scalability, global distribution, and flexible costs critical challenges.

Rovio built a distributed, highly automated platform on Amazon Web Services—using EC2, RDS in VPC, EMR for analytics, S3, and CloudFront—to scale capacity on demand, accelerate development and testing, and deliver low-latency content worldwide. The result is a resilient, fail‑proof infrastructure that adapts to player traffic, lowers operational constraints, and improves the game and video experience for users everywhere.

Rovio

Mikko Peltola

Operations Lead, Rovio