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CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:
- CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
- CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
- CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.
Which migration strategy should you recommend for the core gaming application to meet the business and technical requirements?
GCP PCA · Question 05 · Domain 4: Analyzing and Optimizing Technical and Business Processes
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:
- CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
- CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
- CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.
How should you address the operations team's limited cloud experience while ensuring the 99.95% uptime requirement?
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: 500 employees, $100M revenue. On-prem US/EU, 200 servers, 5TB MySQL. 2M peak users, $100K/mo cost.
Business: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, launch APAC/SA/Africa, daily deployments.
Executives:
- CEO: "Scale rapidly to compete. Cloud is critical."
- CFO: "Cost reduction paramount. Max $100K/mo. ROI in 18 months."
- CTO: "Team has limited cloud experience. 99.95% uptime non-negotiable."
Tech: <100ms latency globally, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection, CI/CD.
Constraints: 12-month migration, 4hr max downtime, 20 devs (Java/MySQL), 5 ops (limited cloud), $2M budget.
How should you address the operations team's limited cloud experience while ensuring the 99.95% uptime requirement?
Answer options:
Replace the operations team with experienced GCP certified engineers.
Outsource all operations to a third-party Managed Service Provider (MSP).
Implement SRE practices, define Service Level Objectives (SLOs), and utilize Google Cloud Skills Boost for team training.
Keep the application on-premises where the team already has operational experience.
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