Case Study: Game Insight achieves automatic near-real-time scaling and halves server count with Microsoft Azure

Game developer dynamically scales fun in the cloud

Game Insight, a Vilnius‑based developer and publisher of free‑to‑play mobile and social games played by more than 300 million people, needed to eliminate back‑end delays that break gameplay. Its legacy hosted infrastructure required constant over‑provisioning to avoid stutters, leaving expensive unused capacity at off‑peak times—an unsustainable model for titles like 2020: My Country.

In one week the team moved 2020: My Country to Microsoft Azure, using Linux VMs, Terraform, and Azure Premium Storage (SSDs). The migration halved server count (from eight to four), enabled near‑real‑time automatic scaling, improved database density and reliability with automatic backups and failover, and cut operational effort and costs while maintaining high performance for players.

Game Insight

Alex Shirov

Chief Technology Officer