6 Waves Limited (6waves) is a leading international publisher and developer of gaming applications on the Facebook platform. The company aims to publish the next generation of social games to cover every genre, language, and platform. Scouring the Earth to bring the most fun and exciting games to social network users in the languages they speak, 6waves estimates they have more than 50 million monthly players active on their games—a number that is quickly growing.
Currently, 6waves is using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Elastic Block Storage, Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), and Amazon Elastic Load Balancing. Cosmos Tong, System Administrator for 6waves, describes how the services fit into the company’s architecture: “As the games we publish are relatively independent, we group servers of different games into separated [Amazon Web Services] AWS accounts and use [Elastic Load Balancing] to set up load balancing and AWS security groups to control access.”