Case Study: JumpStart Games, Inc. achieves scalable, high-performance gaming with Microsoft Azure

Leading Game Developer Selects Microsoft Azure to Meet Surging Customer Demand

JumpStart Games, Inc. needed a cloud platform that could handle explosive growth after its School of Dragons game became an overnight hit, driving traffic from 100,000 to 500,000 users a day. Its existing provider could not scale fast enough or cost-effectively, so JumpStart looked to Microsoft Azure for a more flexible solution using Azure Cloud Services, Azure Virtual Machines, and Visual Studio 2013 support.

Microsoft Azure helped JumpStart split its game platform into separate cloud services, move development, test, and production workloads to Azure, and quickly lift-and-shift Linux virtual machines with minimal code changes. The result was better visibility, stronger performance, near-zero downtime, and more efficient scaling up or down to match demand, while freeing engineering time and supporting future growth across both PaaS and IaaS.

JumpStart Games, Inc.

David Lord

President and CEO