Case Study: JumpStart Games achieves scalable, flexible gaming performance with Microsoft Azure

Leading Game Developer Selects Microsoft Azure to Meet Surging Customer Demand

JumpStart Games, Inc., a developer of educational games for kids, faced immense difficulty scaling its cloud infrastructure to meet the surging, unexpected demand for its new School of Dragons game. Their previous cloud provider could not scale rapidly or cost-effectively, threatening the user experience. To support its rapidly growing user base, JumpStart turned to Microsoft Azure for a more flexible and scalable solution.

Microsoft Azure provided a solution leveraging both its Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) models. This allowed for a seamless migration from their .NET-based platform and also accommodated new Linux-based components with minimal changes. The result was a highly scalable environment with minimal downtime and significant cost efficiencies. The migration supported a daily user base that grew from 100,000 to 500,000 players for a single game, ensuring smooth performance for millions of global users.

JumpStart Games, Inc.

David Lord

President and CEO