Explore a detailed conference talk from AWS re:Invent 2025 examining The New York Times' strategic migration of their gaming platform from Google Cloud Platform to Amazon Web Services. Discover the compelling reasons behind this major cloud provider switch and examine the comprehensive best practices that enabled a seamless transition of some of the internet's most popular gaming pages and applications. Learn about the technical journey from Google's Datastore, App Engine, and Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) and Amazon DynamoDB. Understand how this strategic cloud migration modernized The Times' technology stack while delivering significant improvements in performance, scalability, and operational efficiency. Gain insights into the challenges, solutions, and lessons learned during this large-scale cloud platform migration that can inform your own cloud strategy decisions.