Maxamtech: Re-architecting a gaming platform on AWS

Overview

Executive summary

Maxamtech Digital Ventures, a gaming app provider, faced infrastructure problems that hurt both developers and players. It partnered with Core5 to re-architect its cloud environment on AWS for scalability, performance, security and cost efficiency.

The challenge

What they were up against

• Infrastructure couldn't adjust automatically to traffic surges; scaling was manual and error-prone.
• High latency and slow data retrieval disrupted real-time multiplayer gameplay.
• Weak security controls exposed user, game-progress and payment data.
• Manual server management and slow pipelines delayed releases and bug fixes.
• Underused resources, especially off-peak, drove up AWS bills.

Our solution

How Core5 approached it

• Added Auto Scaling for EC2 plus AWS Lambda serverless functions to match capacity to demand.
• Accelerated delivery with Amazon CloudFront and cached hot data with Amazon ElastiCache.
• Encrypted data with AWS KMS and ran automated vulnerability scans with AWS Inspector.
• Automated monitoring with CloudWatch and CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline, backed by a staging environment.
• Optimised cost with Amazon S3 for assets and AWS Cost Explorer for usage insights.

Technologies

Technologies used

Results

The outcome