Case study 7 March 2022

DFL cuts storage costs by 35% and delivers real-time match data with AWS

Industry: Media & Entertainment

About

DFL (Deutsche Fußball Liga) manages and markets Germany’s professional football leagues, delivering match broadcasts and related services worldwide.

Challenge

DFL needed a faster, more reliable system to process and analyse large volumes of live match data for fan-facing applications. Their legacy setup lacked scalability and real-time visualisation capabilities.

Solution

Firemind implemented a fully managed AWS data streaming solution. Amazon Kinesis collected and processed match data in real time, Firehose loaded it into analytics tools, and S3 provided scalable storage. AWS Lambda automated event-driven tasks, delivering processed data to DFL’s apps for instant display.

Services used

Amazon S3
AWS Lambda
Amazon Kinesis Firehose
Amazon Kinesis Data Streams

Results

35% monthly storage cost savings
Real-time data visualisation
Faster data-to-screen delivery
Fully automated data pipelines
Scalable infrastructure for peak match times

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