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Halfbrick Keynote Sydney Customer Appreciation Day
1. Ha f BRICK
l
Dale Freya
Executive Producer
Cloud Team
2. Who
is
Hal*rick?
ABOUT
Halfbrick is a game studio founded in Brisbane Australia in 2001.
We have 5 game teams, 60 staff and have released over 30
games.
We’re Australian owned but operate in the global market.
3. Path
to
Amazon
! Want to get a game onto Facebook
! No Hosting
! Need to Store User Data
! Need a Cross Platform Social Network
! Integrate OpenFeint
! Great until…
! Open Feint Sold
! Need to Build it Ourselves
! AWS was an obvious choice
! Competitive Pricing
! Flexibility
! Scalability
4. AWS
benefits
! Manage Rapid Growth
! Frenzy Userbase Grows too Rapidly
! DynamoDB to the Rescue
! Backend has 5 million daily active users and rapidly growing
! Build Agile Flexible Solutions
! Cloud User Data ! Analytics ! Reengagement
! Push Notifications ! Advertising ! Marketing
! Release Management ! Cross Promotion ! Asynchronous Games
! AWS is a Partner
! Help us to cut costs
! Give advice on process and architecture
! Help to debug our issues
! Always taking on feedback and improving