Wargaming accelerated development and testing of new products and services using a public cloud of G-Core Labs

2020: Implementation of a public cloud of G-Core Labs

On August 27, 2020 it became known that the public cloud of G-Core Labs, provider cloud and edge-solutions, allowed Wargaming, the developer and the publisher of multiplayer video games, several times to accelerate development processes and testings of a feature sets, products and services, to provide smooth functioning of a number of game projects of the company, including the Calibre online shooter which is in process of open beta testing and also to adjust effective work with external partners in development.

Wargaming has two approaches to a public cloud of G-Core Labs. One part of a cloud is integrated into security perimeter of our company, and another is located behind this perimeter, i.e. functions as a classical public cloud. Dmitry Kuryanovich, Head of Maintenance Wargaming told

According to him, scenarios of work of Wargaming with an internal segment of a public cloud are similar to types of problems which the company solves using a private cloud of G-Core Labs.

The main task of a cloud - fast providing resources when they are necessary. Procurement process of servers takes weeks, and even months that slows down development processes, testing and start of products and services and also complicates planning and work during the periods of peak loads on infrastructure. For example, in holidays or during the actions. Dmitry Kuryanovich, Head of Maintenance Wargaming told

As it was explained, the main vorkloda of an internal part of a public cloud for August, 2020 are concentrated in development and testing by a feature and services of projects Wargaming. Harmonious interaction of development teams and testing, application of different methods of work and cloud infrastructure of G-Core Labs allow holding to reduce many times time-to-market of the products and services.

At the same time, use of a cloud and for problems of production already began: for example, recently in a cloud started a number of virtual machines for work of Calibre, a tactical online game about special troops, for August, 2020 finding at a stage of open beta testing.

As for an external part of a public cloud, Wargaming addresses it when the company quickly needs the source of resources which is out of own security perimeter.

In the company there are always people who come to IT department and say: "Give resources, and we will configure and control them". For example, children prepare a test prototype with external developers. And here an external part of a public cloud of G-Core Labs is suitable for such scenarios. The matter is that Wargaming pays due attention to security therefore to let the person from the outside to internal resources takes more time, than to receive machines in a public cloud. For such tasks the isolated resources which have no access to our repositories, to the next virtual machines and so on are necessary. I am happy with a public cloud of G-Core Labs, both in terms of basic functionality, and in respect of the provided analytics and model of billing. In a personal account on evident diagrams statistics of the consumed resources, clear as where at us it was started and as works is visible. In a complex with constant tariffing we received the tool which carries out the tasks assigned to it. Listen to us and hear, the G-Core Labs command regularly considers offers on adding of functionality, and the technical support reacts to requests within 15 minutes therefore integration of our systems with a cloud of G-Core Labs continues. Dmitry Kuryanovich, Head of Maintenance Wargaming added

Comprehensive cyber defense of an external segment of a public cloud of Wargming, including from modern and perspective DDoS attacks and bots, is provided to G-Core Labs. The possibility of technology of the company is in what at the moments of the attacks of G-Core Labs does not block the IP address, specific harmful sessions are cut. The technology of intellectual traffic filtering in real time combining the analysis of statistical, signature, technical and behavioural factors is the cornerstone of the solution.

G-Core Labs protects a cloud from L3, L4 and L7 attacks, including low-frequency and also cuts even single requests of bots. Within the IaaS model the public cloud of G-Core Labs provides functionality of control of virtual machines with a possibility of setup of any configurations and operating systems with the subsequent deployment and scaling of projects in several clicks.

The public cloud provides also functionality of the so-called balancer of loading using which it is possible to distribute vorkloda between virtual machines. For example, his website works at group of virtual machines of the client, and at some point load of one of machines increases up to 80–90%. Use of the balancer allows the user to exclude risk of finishing the machine and the website to the full.