Case Study: Wooga achieves rapid, reliable, cost-efficient scaling to millions of players with Amazon Web Services

Wooga - Customer Case Study

Wooga is a Berlin-based game studio that develops cross-platform social games like Monster World and Magic Land. Facing highly variable, unpredictable traffic—Monster World can hit ~2 million players/day (≈15,000 req/s) and Magic Land ~850,000/day (≈5,000 req/s)—the company needed fast reaction times, high server reliability, automated deployments, and a solution suited to small, independent teams.

Wooga moved hosting to AWS, using AWS OpsWorks, Amazon EC2, EBS and S3 to automate operations, provision instances in minutes, and scale capacity up or down with hourly billing. The result: rapid, cost-efficient scaling that supports peak loads and lean teams (Wooga can scale Monster World to millions of users with just a couple of backend developers), faster decision-making, and improved reliability.

Wooga

Jesper Richter-Reichhelm

Head of Engineering