A lottery’s website traffic is about as flat as you can imagine during normal business hours. But once those multi-million dollar drawings take place in the evening, the jackpots aren’t the only numbers that are eye-popping.

When Chris Abate"> Chris Abate, VP of Lottery Operations at Marcus Thomas LLC"> Marcus Thomas LLC, and his team took responsibility for the web properties and user experience of Mega Millions"> Mega Millions, The Ohio Lottery"> The Ohio Lottery, and The New Hampshire Lottery"> The New Hampshire Lottery - they knew they needed cloud solutions that packed a punch.

Chris shares how the cloud gives lottery websites the edge in handling extreme traffic during peak hours and keeps bad actors from ruining the greatest day ever for winners.

Join us as we discuss:

- Engaging customers with a new lottery rewards program (5:46) 

- Security checks and balances to deny malicious coders (10:53)

- Automating and scaling a major lottery platform in the cloud (20:32)

Check out these resources we mentioned during the podcast:

- Chris Abate">Chris Abate

- Marcus Thomas LLC">Marcus Thomas LLC

- Ohio Lottery">Ohio Lottery

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