Case Study: Wavve achieves scalable global streaming, faster transcoding, and major cost savings with Microsoft Azure

Wavve chooses Azure to enhance its global service and accelerate digital transformation

wavve is a leading South Korean video streaming service with more than 10 million subscribers that produces original content and operates a complex container-based microservice platform. Faced with rapidly rising traffic, heavy transcoding demands (including 4K/UHD), the need to expand globally, and to enable distributed engineering and remote work, wavve needed a more scalable, flexible and cost‑efficient infrastructure.

wavve migrated its entire stack to Microsoft Azure, adopting Azure Kubernetes Service for standardized container orchestration, Azure Spot VMs for large-scale transcoding, and Azure CDN and VDI for global delivery and secure remote work. As a result, wavve reduced its high‑performance computing burden to about one‑fifth (saving up to 80% on conversion costs), handled a roughly 50% traffic surge with no service degradation, launched wavve Go across seven Southeast Asian countries without new datacenters, and accelerated ongoing development and operational stability.

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Felix Cho

Chief Technology Officer