With billions of users and fast developing business, SHAREit servers must handle tens of thousands of concurrent requests per second, which exposes this start-up company to several technical problems such as data storage, server maintenance, and architecture optimization, as well as challenges in human, physical and financial resources. Coupled with its expansion in the global market, the company looks for a cloud provider who can ensure global coverage, stable service, and high availability.

Global Coverage

Faced with a huge global user base, whether the selected cloud provider can serve global users efficiently and smoothly while facilitating its continued overseas market development is the primary concern of SHAREit.

By March 2018, Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud has covered 54 availability zones in 18 geographical regions and 1 local region, serving up to 190 countries around the globe. Such an extensive global coverage of the data center is the main reason that SHAREit chose AWS.

Efficient and Smooth Operation

The Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) automatically distributes incoming app traffic across multiple Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances and IPs. It may balance changing app traffic load in one availability zone or across several zones. As a load balancer, ELB ensures high availability, automatic scalability and reliable security of an app and increases its fault tolerance.

The Amazon DynamoDB, a quick and resilient NoSQL database service, provides SHAREit with low-latency, stable, and flexibly scalable performance. If user data volume further increases, DynamoDB will meet new throughput requirements through automatic partition and SSD technology, ensuring rapid and smooth running of the servers.

Server-less Management and Pay-per-Use

One of the biggest advantages of server-less service is that it enables users to run code without configuring or managing their servers; and the payment method based on the actual running time and the number of triggers means no payment will be made if no code is running. SHAREit uses AWS Lambda service as a trigger of events connecting different services, and uses AWS Glue, Amazon Athena, and Amazon QuickSight to coordinate, query, and visualize user data. This server-less service enhances the interaction among SHAREit servers and saves resource cost.

Powerful Data Analysis

AWS provides powerful data analysis service, for example, Amazon Kinesis enables SHAREit to collect, process, and analyze real-time, streaming data, so as to get timely insights and react quickly to new information; and the Hadoop architecture of Amazon EMR permits SHAREit to prepare regular analysis report of business intelligence data and to fast calculate products’ business value. Hence, SHAREit may develop accurate content promotion plans.

Professional Enterprise Support

SHAREit employs AWS Enterprise Support Plan which provides 24×7 services and multi-channel technical support, which means a customer may submit any number of cases and get service support at an appropriate level. The Plan assigns technical advisers to respond to customers’ requests as early as possible. Such dedicated VIP service solves problems efficiently and guarantees rapid business development. “We have a wonderful experience with AWS Enterprise Support Plan, both the technical account manager and the Support Concierge have helped us a lot. The technical account manager meets with us every week to discuss how to optimize our system and how to solve the problems encountered. We always have timely case support, including coordinating and mobilizing global backup resources, and removing service limitations. We think the Plan is extremely helpful and important to us,” says Chen Shaowei, CTO of SHAREit.

In addition, the complete services, longer history and larger market share of AWS are also among the reasons that SHAREit chose AWS.