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Markus Ziller

Author: Markus Ziller

Markus Ziller is a Senior Solutions Architect at AWS with a passion for lean architectures and helping our customers build great applications and services with cloud-native, serverless technologies. Prior to this role, Markus worked in different roles in the media and entertainment industry, where he helped build the leading German video streaming service and drive the digital transformation of one of the largest traditional European mass media companies.

The architecture of the solution. It shows an EC2 instance of the G4 family deployed in a public subnet. The EC2 instances communicates with S3. Also shown is how a security group controls access from users to the EC2 instance

Use Amazon EC2 for cost-efficient cloud gaming with pay-as-you-go pricing

July 2025c2: This post was reviewed for accuracy. Cloud gaming enables access to high-performance gaming without upfront hardware investment, using pay-as-you-go pricing instead. Cloud gaming platforms such as Amazon Luna are an entryway, but users are limited to the games available on the service. Furthermore, many users also prefer to own their games, or they […]