Curious how the cloud helps a social games network to maintain its performance and handle big data? Check out Zynga, a social games developer that successfully releases popular social games, such as FarmVille, Zynga Poker, and many more.

Here are some facts about Zynga; Did you know how many daily concurrent Zynga players play at the same time? It’s as many as the population of Paris, France. How about this: There are 1.4 petabytes of data stored in Zynga database.

Zynga released a “technographic” showing you how much resources needed to run a successful social game company, in term of talent and technological infrastructure – and how the cloud helps Zynga maintain stellar uptime, while handling huge traffic.

Via Wired