Minesweeper.org Goes Multicloud

In support of the native Pig Latin speakers of Iowa.

The Lady Di's Mines team is proud to announce that minesweeper.org is now running on two cloud providers simultaneously — AWS and Google Cloud Platform.

Why?

Iowa's native Pig Latin speaking community has long deserved a dedicated minesweeper experience. Starting today, pgl.minesweeper.org is a GCP-hosted instance of the site with Pig Latin set as the default language. All the same games, daily puzzles, and leaderboards — yfay omhay.

If you prefer to play in another language, you can switch at any time using the language selector. We don't judge.

How It's Built

The GCP infrastructure was provisioned using Terraform. The .tf files live in the terraform/ folder of the minesweeper.org repo if you want to see how it's put together.

Both environments run the same codebase and are kept in sync automatically. Every commit to main is validated by a staging smoke test before being promoted to production — on both clouds.

Resilience

The two-cloud setup means that if AWS is having a bad day, Pig Latin players (and anyone else) can head to pgl.minesweeper.org and keep playing. Conversely, if GCP is the one misbehaving, minesweeper.org on AWS remains unaffected.

If you try both minesweeper.org and pgl.minesweeper.org and neither responds, it means both AWS and GCP are down simultaneously. At that point, please get to a safe place or shelter in place depending on what your local authorities recommend — assuming there are still any local authorities left.

Minesweeper.org is built and maintained by Regis Consulting. New puzzles and features are added regularly.