By the end of the year, nearly 80 percent of our DAUs (daily active users) were hosted in the Z-Cloud, compared to just 20 percent at the beginning of the year. We migrated a number of our key games over to the Z-Cloud, which provides ongoing network savings and enhanced performance for our players. "We have built our own infrastructure, the Z-Cloud, to handle the tens of millions of players we serve each day. Zynga operating chief John Schappert said: Zynga executives highlighted the move from AWS on the company's fourth quarter earnings conference call. "In the fourth quarter of 2011, AWS hosted approximately one-third of our game traffic." In late February, Zynga's annual report was filed with some word tweaks:
"A significant majority of our game traffic is hosted by Amazon Web Services, or AWS, which service uses multiple locations." In July, Zynga said it would file for an initial public offering and noted that Amazon Web Services was its background. The launch of Zynga's platform is notable because the company has totally revamped its approach to cloud computing.
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That infrastructure relies heavily on Citrix software and virtualization technology. None of those items would be possible without Zynga's Z-Cloud infrastructure. Zynga will also open up its platform to third party game developers. The company will also diversify away from Facebook, which accounts for most of Zynga's distribution. In a nutshell, will become a destination for games. The game company yesterday outlined its new platform. Zynga's move to create its own platform and Web service for game developers will be a big test for its cloud computing infrastructure.
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