Dream11 on AWS
Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform with more than 220 million users playing fantasy sports ranging from cricket and football to kabaddi and basketball. The flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading sports technology company, it has partnerships with several national and international sports bodies and cricketers. Using Amazon Web Services (AWS), Dream11 has supported its expansion, developing new features and services fast and protecting users from disruption. Its Scaler tool combined with AWS technologies help it scale dynamically and cost-effectively to handle millions of requests a minute and hundreds of sporting events a day.
Dream11’s seamless fantasy sports experience is supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS), with a secure infrastructure that scales to handle hundreds of events a day with 99.99 percent application uptime. A data-driven approach means Dream11 can quickly deliver innovative features to more than 220 million sports fans.
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Born in the AWS Cloud
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Cost Optimization
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Data Solutions
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Innovation
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In the News
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Born in the AWS Cloud
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2023
How Dream11 Optimizes Efficiency and Reliability with an In-House Scaling Platform for Scaling Resources on AWS
Managing massive fluctuating traffic demands is a complex and challenging undertaking for the Dream11 team. It uses its in-house Scaler tool and a range of AWS technologies, including AWS Lambda and Elastic Load Balancing, to dynamically scale to support 100+ sporting events a day and millions of requests a minute.
At Dream11, we use both Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers to manage all incoming traffic to our platform. With over 100 load balancers processing more than 65 billion requests per day across microservices, we ensure high availability and scalability to meet the demands of our users seamlessly.”
Vipin Chaudhary
Director SRE, Dream11
2022FanCode Grows 40x in 3 Years by Delivering High Quality Live Streams on AWS
Sports content aggregator and Dream Sports company FanCode streams hundreds of sporting events with near-zero downtime and deploys new channels in 15 minutes using AWS Media Services and AWS Elemental MediaLive. It launched in just 3 months with the cloud expertise of AWS and the Dream Sports team.
Ultimately, it is about giving users the best possible sports entertainment experience, and we have been able to achieve that with help from AWS.”
Amit Mirchandani
Head of Engineering, FanCode
2021Powering the Future of Sports for 220 Million Fans: Dream11’s Vision to Make Sports Better Using AWS
Fantasy sports platform Dream11 grew its user base from 300,000 in 2015 to more than 220 million in 2024. It uses AWS technologies such as Amazon SageMaker, Amazon EMR, and AWS Shield to continuously champion a user-first culture, get to market fast, and prioritize security at all times.
At Dream11, technology is at the core of everything we do. With over 220 million users, we rely on scalable, innovative systems to deliver seamless and engaging experiences. AWS supports our ability to rapidly prototype and scale new features, helping us stay ahead in a fast-paced market and achieve our vision of making sports better for fans everywhere.”
Abhishek Ravi
Chief Information Officer, Dream Sports
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Cost Optimization
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2023
Improving Performance by 40% and Optimizing Costs with Amazon OpenSearch Service at Dream11
Dream11 transitioned to Amazon OpenSearch Service to power its search and analytics engine, providing near-real-time updates and personalized recommendations for over 200 million users. This move resulted in a nearly 50 percent reduction in compute costs while boosting performance by 40 percent and enhancing the overall experience for its fantasy sports community.
2022Dream11 Boosted Performance and Cut Compute Cost by 42% by Migrating to Graviton2 Instance
Dream11 worked with AWS Enterprise Support to lower the cost of its infrastructure and optimize cloud operations. AWS Graviton2 Processors provide the high performance the Dream11 fantasy sports platform requires at 42 percent lower cost.
2019Dream11: Building a Cost-Effective Compute Model for Scaling Microservices
Qamar Ali Shaikh, Dream11’s director of DevOps, talks to Ekta Parashar—AWS solutions architect manager—about how Dream11 created a platform that could scale dynamically and cost effectively to 70 million users on AWS.
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Data Solutions
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2021
Learn How Dream11, the World’s Largest Fantasy Sports Platform, Scale Their Social Network with Amazon Neptune and Amazon ElastiCache
Dream11’s in-app social features are loved by millions of sports fans. The company uses Amazon Neptune and Amazon ElastiCache to handle the extremely high throughput generated by thousands of contests a day, and give it the speed and scale to deliver great user experiences.
2020Dream11’s Journey to Building Their Data Highway on AWS
Through its Data Highway project on AWS—using services such as Amazon Athena, Amazon EMR, and AWS Glue—Dream11 created a centralized 360-degree analytics platform. It delivers a real-time view of the user experience and journey by analyzing both interaction and transaction data. Find out how.
2018Dream11: Scaling Fantasy Sports Platform with Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Aurora
Amit Sharma, Dream11’s chief technology officer, talks with Rohini Gaonkar, AWS solutions architect, about the architecture that scales to support 5 million active daily users. Using Amazon ElastiCache and Amazon Aurora, the virtual sports platform serves 1 million concurrent users with a 50 millisecond response time and accommodates 4x growth year-on-year. See how.
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Innovation
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2023
How Dream11 Built a Multi-Tenant User Authentication Service on Amazon EKS
Using Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), Dream11 built a multi-tenant user
authentication service with the essential features of isolation, scalability, and cost-efficiency. Learn about the key design benefits, and the Amazon EKS architecture that sits behind the service.
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In the News
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2023
Technology Will Bridge Gap Between Sports and Sports Fans: Dream11 Sports CTO Amit Sharma
Dream11 has increased efficiency, lowered costs, and reduced time to market using AWS. According to chief technology officer Amit Sharma, AWS was the “natural cloud partner to turn to” to help it meet its scale, flexibility, and performance challenges.
With AWS Enterprise Support, we gain expert technical assistance and valuable guidance tailored to our applications. A dedicated Technical Account Manager [TAM] coordinates and offers advice, helping optimize infrastructure, reduce costs, and enhance security. Their support ensures best practices are followed across our solutions.”
Abhishek Ravi
Chief Information Officer, Dream11
2022Great User Experience and Tech Are at the Core of What We Do: Dream11 CIO
Abhishek Ravi, chief information officer at Dream11, explains why the company chooses AWS. From cost savings to speed, resilience, and agility—working in the AWS Cloud helps Dream11 stay at the forefront of fantasy sports.
About Dream11
With more than 220 million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. The flagship brand of India’s leading sports technology company Dream Sports, it has partnerships with several national and international sports bodies and cricketers.
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