New Way Now: Electronic Arts is powering up Ultimate Team infrastructure with Google Cloud

𝗦𝘂𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘆: Wilson Chan, senior principal architect at Electronic Arts (EA), shares how Google Cloud is helping the leading game developer bring its interactive live gaming experiences to the next level. EA pulled off a seamless migration of its global hit EA SPORTS FC to Google Cloud, ensuring the platform is always ready to meet its players’ needs and requirements — from anywhere in the world, day or night. 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗲: Due to the massive popularity and value of EA SPORTS FC, EA wanted to migrate its existing on-premises infrastructure to the cloud to gain greater flexibility and take advantage of the ability to automate management and maintenance tasks. 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻: EA collaborated closely with Google Cloud to migrate the entire compute capacity of the EA SPORTS FC platform off its on-premises data center, including applications, databases, tools, and more — without a single interruption or outage for players. Google Cloud’s planet-scale infrastructure, which also powers massive live Google services like YouTube and Search, provides the speed, scale, stability, and security needed to support the often extreme requirements of live gaming experiences. As a result of their migration, EA is now equipped to easily scale capacity — doubling, tripling, or even increasing it tenfold — to support things like special promotional events and new features. 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘀: Backed by Google Cloud, EA SPORTS FC is scoring goals across the board, delivering smooth, stable, and secure gameplay to millions of players around the globe — every second of every day. By reducing time spent on maintenance and support, the company can redirect focus towards innovation, exploring further automation and building new features. The migration has also enabled them to look across their system holistically at what else can be modernized, including a planned transition to Spanner (Google Cloud’s distributed SQL database management and storage service). 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗵𝗶