Ride the Storm: Navigating Through Unstable Periods / Katerina Rudko (Belka G...
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Of course we don’t use Azure at the scale that is possible but I want to talk about scale as it is key to what Azure can do.
Titanfall, launched March 11 it is an Xbox One Game that depends the Azure cloud for match play. The game working with Azure figures out where the players are in the world and automatically spins up a server for match to be played. On Launch day there were 100,000 Virtual Machines hosting games. There is nothing else like it.
This global footprint allows you to spin up multiple instances of your websites in various regions of the world. Using Traffic manager to create a single DNS address you can map to all of these instances globally.
Azure’s auto scaling feature allows us to locate, connect and scale to the optimal Server hosts based on bandwidth needs. You are able to pre-configure how many max VMs you wish to use, thus eliminating most latency problems during periods of heavy traffic. Additionally, cost efficiencies can be gained by also predetermining your burn down rate during times of lesser need.
Dynamic load balancer means our customer’s gameplay is rarely interrupted, even in times of severe outages…………