Huya POKO

Huya Business Introduction

Guangzhou Huya Information Technology Co., Ltd. (NYSE: HUYA) (hereinafter referred to as "Huya Live") is a live broadcast platform centered on games, committed to becoming a technology-driven entertainment community popular with young people. Huya Live broadcasts more than 2,600 games, covering all categories of games, and more than 360 e-sports events throughout the year. Based on the success of game live broadcast, Huya Live has developed into a comprehensive interactive platform that includes pan-entertainment, reality show, two-dimensional, outdoor and other content. In May 2018, Huya Live was successfully listed on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock rose by more than 400% within a month, and its market value exceeded US$10 billion, becoming a new milestone in the live broadcasting industry.

With the gradual development of e-sports, the rapid rise of the e-sports live broadcast industry has caused a wide range of major industries. Live broadcast not only carries the inner needs of players' inner social interaction and participation in the community, but also plays a huge leading role in the game industry. After the game joins the live broadcast, it can be reborn. As the originator of domestic webcasting, Huya Live Broadcast itself is to carry players' inner social interaction and the inner needs of participating in the community. Nowadays, real game players will devote themselves to the game, and the social interaction in the game will allow players to experience a different world.

In May 2019, Huya low-key launched a small game social application POKO overseas. POKO is a social gaming application designed to make new friends all over the world. Connect with players from different locations, chat while playing, meet more friends in the game, and enjoy some really interesting time. You can easily invite friends to play together immediately. Challenge friends on POKO and show off your game skills. Meet the social needs of modern people! And bring more material to the live broadcast business.

POKO has aroused a strong response in the Latin American market since it went online in May. The coverage area is dominated by many small countries in Latin America. Three months after it went online, the total downloads in Brazil exceeded 580,000.

Customer Pain Points

The management of overseas Internet business in China faces the following problems:

-The contradiction between China's local operation and maintenance team and global operation and maintenance requires more operation and maintenance resources, which is costly and low in efficiency.

-In the face of various business emergencies, the infrastructure cannot be elastically expanded in time to support it.

-The original structure deployed in Southeast Asia has a large delay in supporting global operations including Latin America.

-Need low-cost global expansion, IDC model has been unable to meet customer needs.

Solutions And Architecture

-Choose AWS global deployment and deploy in three regions: ap-southeast-1, us-east-1 and sa-east-1

-With ap-southeast-1 as the core area, business front desks are distributed in various areas

-Front-end business and core business are deployed in different VPCs

-Front-end business and core business VPC use VPC peering to connect in pairs

-Multi-zone deployment can provide availability, application servers are distributed in multiple zones, and the database adopts a multi-zone master-slave structure

-VPC network uses a combination of public and private subnets to enhance security

-ALB is the only interface accessed by the Internet

-Use CloudFront to provide good internet access

-Use managed database and cache services to reduce management costs

-Separate reads and writes in business to further improve database performance

-Use CloudFormation template to deploy landing zone

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Customer Benefits

-Based on the functions of AWS infrastructure and services, a small number of operations and maintenance personnel can quickly deploy services to all parts of the world through remote scripts and commands.

-The use of hosting services further reduces the pressure of operation and maintenance.

-The elasticity brought by the cloud greatly shortens the resource planning and procurement cycle.

-Multi-AZ deployment method improves service availability and reliability. Reduce failure rate and improve overall business SLA.

-The real-time monitoring system improves the mastery of the entire system and enhances the control ability of the system. CloudTrail improves the audit function of the system.

-Through service operation analysis, timely adjust server configuration and optimize costs.