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Riot Games is making ready to close down its final world knowledge facilities because it transitions to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
The League of Legends and Valorant developer started its multi-year plan to part out its owned and operated knowledge facilities in 2017. Since then, it decommissioned 14 knowledge facilities around the globe. Two of those facilities, Las Vegas and Chile, had been shut down within the final month. The remaining facilities in Turkey and Brazil might be shuttered within the coming months.
According to Brent Rich, head of world infrastructure and operations at Riot Games, the benefits of AWS got here into focus in 2019. Riot was making ready to launch Teamfight Tactics and Valorant. The developer’s authentic plan was to launch 40 world knowledge facilities as a low-latency answer was important for Valorant.
“At that time the belief was that metal was the way to go for performance reasons, but there’s so much complexity in owning and operating data centers, even without bringing automation into the equation. We wanted to figure out how we could get the same level of performance out of the cloud,” Rich mentioned.
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After displaying that AWS carried out on the similar stage as bodily knowledge facilities (and supplied added flexibility), Riot bought inner buy-in to make the change.
Riot and AWS partnership’s broad attain
Riot’s partnership with AWS goes additional than simply being its official cloud providers supplier. AWS can be Riot’s official Cloud Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud Machine Learning (ML) and Cloud Deep Learning (DL) supplier.
Additionally, AWS performs a key position in Riot’s broadcasting expertise for its numerous esports leagues. For League of Legends Worlds 2023, AWS sponsored (and calculated) a Win Probability statistic for the printed.
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