Dream11 on AWS
Dream11, India’s largest fantasy sports platform, is the flagship brand of sports technology firm Dream Sports. Delivering exceptional engagement experiences for sports fans has always been the driving force of the business—and this ethos has seen the company’s user base grow from 100 million in 2020 to 200 million today. Using Amazon Web Services, 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.
Scale, reliability, and security are the cornerstones of the seamless virtual sports experience Dream11 is famous for. The company uses AWS to handle hundreds of sports events, deliver app uptime of 99.99 percent, and protect its infrastructure from disruption. A data-driven approach helps it get innovative features to 200 million sports fans faster.
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Born in the AWS Cloud
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2023
Dream11 “Makes Sports Better” with 200 Million Users on AWS
Fantasy sports platform Dream11 grew its customer base from 2 million in 2016 to more than 200 million in 2023. It uses AWS services 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.
Every decision we make is backed by data and technology, considering various metrics to continually add ‘wow factors’ that help retain customers. AWS promotes a user-first culture, with intuitive cloud-native services that help us launch things fast without any dependencies. The various AWS technology offerings help us develop our prototypes and make them live very quickly, even at a massive scale. This gives us a competitive edge in the market, where speed is essential.”
Praveen JainVice president of engineering, Dream11
2023How Dream11 Uses an In-House Scaling Platform to Scale Resources on AWS for Efficiency and Reliability
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.
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 MirchandaniHead of engineering, FanCode
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.
At Dream11, we leverage Application Load Balancers and Classic Load Balancers for all of the ingress traffic to our fantasy sports platform. We use 100+ load balancers processing more than 65 billion requests per day across all of our microservices ensuring high availability and scalability for our traffic needs.”
Vipin Chaudhary
Director SRE, Dream11
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Cost Optimization
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2023
Upping Performance by 40% and Optimizing Cost Using Amazon OpenSearch Service with Dream11
Dream11 moved to Amazon OpenSearch Service to power its search and analytics engine that provides near-real-time updates and recommendations to more than 200 million online gamers. Doing so has helped the fantasy sports platform cut compute costs nearly 50% and boost performance 40%.
2022Dream11 Gained Significant Performance and Saved 42% Compute Cost by Simply Migrating to the Graviton2 Instance Family
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—Solutions Architect Manager, Large Enterprise Business, AWS—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 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
Dream11 chief technology officer Amit Sharma talks with AWS solutions architect Rohini Gaonkar 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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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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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 benefit from steady and competent technical aid from high-quality engineers, tools, and technology to help manage the ecosystem and provide architectural guidance in context to our applications and use cases. A designated Technical Account Manager [TAM] to help coordinate is a great value addition as they are a designated point of contact who not only consult us during the onboarding phase but also provide advocacy and guidance to help plan and build solutions. We also get a lot of input on our Infrastructure optimization, which also leads to cost reduction and better resource utilization. TAMs also help us design solutions that adhere to best security practices.”
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
India-based Dream11 is the largest fantasy sports platform in the country, with more than 200 million users. It allows sports fans to create virtual teams based on real-life players and matches, with the ability to earn points and win prizes.
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