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CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: Based on the constraints and requirements, which migration strategy should you recommend for the core gaming application?
GCP PCA · Question 05 · Cost Optimization
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: To meet the CFO's requirement of reducing costs by 40%, which pricing strategy should you apply to the baseline, predictable compute workloads?
CASE STUDY: TechStream Gaming
Overview:
Industry: Gaming
Size: 500 employees, $100M revenue
Environment:
- On-prem US/EU
- 200 servers
- MySQL (5 TB)
- 2M peak users
- $100K/mo cost
Requirements:
- Reduce costs 40%
- 5x growth
- Launch APAC/SA/Africa
- Daily deployments
Exec Statements:
- CEO: Scale rapidly.
- CFO: Max $100K/mo, 18mo ROI.
- CTO: Limited cloud exp, 99.95% uptime.
Tech Reqs:
- <100ms latency globally
- Real-time analytics
- 5x seasonal spikes
- EU data residency
- DDoS protection
- CI/CD
Constraints:
- 12mo migration
- <4hr downtime
- 20 Java/MySQL devs, 5 ops
- $2M budget
QUESTION: To meet the CFO's requirement of reducing costs by 40%, which pricing strategy should you apply to the baseline, predictable compute workloads?
Answer options:
Rely on Sustained Use Discounts (SUDs) for all workloads.
Use Spot VMs for all gaming servers.
Purchase 3-year Committed Use Discounts (CUDs).
Implement custom machine types to exactly match on-premises specifications.
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