How do you take popular game titles and launch them to a global audience, ensuring a stable, low-latency experience for every player, no matter where they are? You need a cloud infrastructure that is both reliable and globally distributed. That was the challenge for Tokyo-based A PLUS JAPAN. Their business of adapting famous Japanese IPs for a worldwide market required a partner with world-class network stability and data centers in diverse regions to support their international user base. By building on Alibaba Cloud, A PLUS JAPAN created a powerful, cost-effective infrastructure to power their global expansion. Using a suite of products including Elastic Compute Service (ECS), high-performance databases like PolarDB, and Server Load Balancer (SLB), they ensured their games run smoothly for players everywhere. The result? A PLUS JAPAN successfully reduced infrastructure costs by approximately 50% while achieving high-quality operations. According to CTO Zhicheng Mu, "Database perfo...