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CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: Based on the constraints and requirements, which migration strategy should you recommend for the core gaming application?
GCP PCA · Question 02 · Network/Storage/Compute
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: How should you design the global network architecture to meet the latency, scaling, and security requirements?
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: How should you design the global network architecture to meet the latency, scaling, and security requirements?
Answer options:
Implement Regional Network Load Balancers in each region with Cloud NAT.
Implement Global HTTP(S) Load Balancing with Cloud CDN and Cloud Armor.
Use Cloud DNS with geolocation routing policies pointing to Compute Engine instance groups.
Implement Cloud Interconnect to route traffic through the existing US and EU data centers.
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