

For Zynga, this increased not only the ability to scale but also reliability. And startup RightScale provides a management console for Zynga’s public cloud (powered by AWS) and the private cloud.īetween 20, Zynga says that it doubled down on increasing physical server capacity in order to move games over to the private cloud. And Zynga has created tailored automation tools for large server environments and built custom monitoring and management tools.Īs GigaOm reported last year, xCloud was built using ’s CloudStack software. zCloud physically resides in Zynga’s private datacenters and is designed specifically for social games in terms of availability and performance. As Leinwand explains, the infrastructure looks, feels, and operates similar to the AWS public cloud, but allows for greater performance, scale and reliability. Zynga has been quietly investing in powering up the zCloud over the past few years, explains Allan Leinwand, Zynga’s CTO of Infrastructure. Today the company is revealing additional information about the zCloud and how much data is being transmitted through its infrastructure. A year later, nearly 80% of Zynga games’ DAU reside in zCloud, and 20% in the public cloud (powered by AWS). At the start of 2011, only 20% of Zynga’s daily active users (DAU) were in the zCloud. As mentioned in yesterday’s earnings call, Zynga revealed that the company’s zCloud, its private cloud infrastructure has been scaling significantly in the past year.
