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CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost.
Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments.
Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills.
Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection.
Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime.
QUESTION:
Which migration strategy should you recommend for the legacy gaming application to meet the 12-month timeline and team skill constraints?
GCP PCA · Question 05 · Business Processes
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost.
Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments.
Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills.
Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection.
Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime.
QUESTION:
How should you address the CTO's concern about the team's limited cloud experience while achieving the goal of daily deployments?
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview: Gaming company, 500 employees, $100M revenue. 200 on-prem servers (US/EU), MySQL 5TB. 2M peak users. $150K/mo cost.
Business Req: Reduce cost 40%, 5x growth, 3 new regions, daily deployments.
Execs: CEO wants scale; CFO caps budget at $100K/mo; CTO needs 99.95% uptime, notes team has limited cloud skills.
Tech Req: <100ms global latency, real-time analytics, 5x seasonal spikes, EU data residency, DDoS protection.
Constraints: 12-month migration, max 4-hour downtime.
QUESTION:
How should you address the CTO's concern about the team's limited cloud experience while achieving the goal of daily deployments?
Answer options:
Hire a completely new team of GCP experts and fire the existing operations team.
Implement Cloud Build for CI/CD and provide targeted training on GCP managed services.
Continue using manual deployment scripts to avoid overwhelming the team with new tools.
Outsource all operations to a third-party managed service provider permanently.
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