At 10 years old, Angry Birds is keeping players hooked with machine learning ZDNet

When Rovio Entertainment released Angry Birds in 2009, mobile games weren't really a thing -- the Apple App Store, after all, had only launched a year earlier. Once the game went viral, however, Rovio saw its future was in the cloud. "It was an unchartered area for most of games," Rovio CTO Petri Hyökyranta said to ZDNet. Rovio signed up for the relatively young Amazon Web Services in 2011 and got to work building Beacon, a service platform for all of Rovio's games. Today, after 10 years on the market, Angry Birds games are still played by millions of people around the world each day.