Case Study: Paddy Power Betfair achieves a validated, high‑availability private‑cloud MySQL environment with Percona XtraDB Cluster and Percona Support

Paddy Power Betfair and Percona Validate A Private Cloud Database Environment

Paddy Power Betfair is a global sports betting and gaming operator serving over five million customers across multiple markets. They needed to standardize and validate a private cloud MySQL environment so developers could rapidly build and deploy features while meeting strict gaming licensing that requires many database servers to remain on‑site. The main challenges were delivering instantaneous data responses, guaranteeing uptime across geographically constrained on‑premises servers, and ensuring developers didn’t waste time managing local database differences.

To solve this, Paddy Power Betfair deployed MySQL into a two‑datacenter private cloud on Red Hat OpenStack and implemented Percona XtraDB Cluster for active/active high availability, synchronous replication, fault‑tolerant failover and easy scalability. Backed by 24/7 Percona Support, the setup validated developer workflows, improved performance and reliability, sped root‑cause resolution, and allowed the team to focus on product innovation while maintaining a consistent, high‑quality customer experience.

Paddy Power Betfair

Andrew Cook

Manager Database Operations