DC Entertainment: AWS Artificial Intelligence powered security

ABOUT DC COMICS

DC Comics is one of the largest and most influential American comic book publishers, best known for iconic superheroes like Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Founded in 1934, it has shaped pop culture for nearly a century through comics, films, television, and video games.

BUSINESS PROBLEM: OVERWHELMING ODDS

DC Entertainment handles up to 2 million daily requests, with spikes up to 4x during events like San Diego Comic Con, impacting site performance. Additionally, third-party crawlers often search the site for security flaws or leaks before announcements.

SOLUTION: REALTIME AI LOG PROCESSING

Metal Toad set up an AWS data pipeline using an SNS trigger to start a Lambda job when CloudFront logs were stored in S3. The Lambda parsed the logs, removing unnecessary columns. Data scientists identified SageMaker’s IPInsights as a suitable algorithm and parsed several days of logs into test and training data.