Case Study: Video Game Retailer reduces hardware costs with Cloud Technology Partners and AWS

Consolidating Data Centers with AWS to Reduce Hardware Cost

Cloud Technology Partners helped Video Game Retailer, the world’s largest multichannel video game retailer, address decentralized international IT operations and high hardware costs across separate autonomous data centers. The company was also unsure which cloud provider would best support its initiatives, making it difficult to standardize its infrastructure and operations.

Cloud Technology Partners implemented an AWS-based environment to centralize international IT operations and create a repeatable model for future migrations, while also optimizing the setup to use native AWS services. The result was reduced hardware costs, improved deployment agility, stronger security, and updated ecommerce and loyalty applications; the migration from MS SQL to RDS also eliminated about $100K in license fees.