Riot Video games is closing down its final knowledge facilities in swap to AWS

Riot Video games is making ready to close down its final international knowledge facilities because it transitions to Amazon Net Providers (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 shall be shuttered within the coming months.

In accordance with Brent Wealthy, head of world infrastructure and operations at Riot Video games, some great benefits of AWS got here into focus in 2019. Riot was making ready to launch Teamfight Techniques and Valorant. The developer’s unique plan was to launch 40 international knowledge facilities as a low-latency resolution was important for Valorant.

“At the moment the idea was that metallic was the best way to go for efficiency causes, however there’s a lot complexity in proudly owning and working knowledge facilities, even with out bringing automation into the equation. We wished to determine how we might get the identical degree of efficiency out of the cloud,” Wealthy stated.

After exhibiting that AWS carried out on the identical degree as bodily knowledge facilities (and supplied added flexibility), Riot bought inner buy-in to make the swap.

Riot and AWS partnership’s broad attain

Riot’s partnership with AWS goes additional than simply being its official cloud providers supplier. AWS can also be Riot’s official Cloud Synthetic Intelligence (AI), Cloud Machine Studying (ML) and Cloud Deep Studying (DL) supplier.

Moreover, AWS performs a key position in Riot’s broadcasting know-how for its varied esports leagues. For League of Legends Worlds 2023, AWS sponsored (and calculated) a Win Chance statistic for the published.