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Article :Media Hosting - Playfish

PlayFish

According to the “Amazon Web Service’s”, one of the listed domain was “Media Hosting”. In this domain, one of the available services was “Playfish”. “Playfish” is a fast growing social games company, combines creativity, innovation and originality to create games for friends to play together over social and mobile platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Yahoo!, iPhone, iPod Touch and Android. Their mission is to change the way people play games by providing more social and connected experiences. Example games that has been provided by “Playfish” such as “Restaurant City™”, “Pet Society™”, “Word Challenge™”, “Bowling Buddies™” and “Who Has The Biggest Brain?™”.Playfish’s infrastructure operates entirely on Amazon Web Services (AWS), primarily using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and Amazon CloudFront :

Amazon Web Services (AWS) :

The Amazon Web Services (AWS) are a collection of remote computing services (also called web services) offered over the Internet by Amazon.com.

Amazon EC2 :

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (also known as "EC2") allows customers to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. EC2 allows scalable deployment of applications by providing a web services interface through which a customer can create virtual machines, i.e. server instances, on which the customer can load any software of their choice.

Amazon S3 :

Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service) is an online storage web service offered by Amazon Web Services. Amazon S3 provides unlimited storage through a simple web services interface.

Amazon CloudFront :

Amazon CloudFront is a content delivery network (CDN) offered by Amazon Web Services. CloudFront operates on a pay-as-you-go basis