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How Dream11 uses an in-house scaling platform to scale resources on AWS for efficiency and reliability

How Dream11 uses an in-house scaling platform to scale resources on AWS for efficiency and reliability

With over 190+ million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform. Their site offers fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, American football & baseball. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company. They have partnerships with several national and international sports bodies and cricketers. About […]

Getting Started with Unreal Engine Development on AWS

Getting Started with Unreal Engine Development on AWS

Blog authors: Gena Gizzi, Jake Wolf, Noor Fairoza, and Chris Blackwell Democratizing Unreal Engine development on AWS with End User Compute products and advanced GPU-based EC2 instances Introduction The games industry is evolving and user-generated content (UGC) is leading the change. Players are making more UGC than ever, motivated by self-expression and the chance to […]

Game Developer’s Guide to Amazon DocumentDB Part 1: An Overview

Game Developer’s Guide to Amazon DocumentDB Part 1: An Overview

Introduction Document database is one of the fastest growing categories of nonrelational database that makes it easier for game developers to store and query data as JSON-like documents. The flexible, semi-structured, and hierarchical nature of document database works well with game use cases such as player profiles and in-game items, and allows game developers to […]

AWS GameTime

Introducing AWS GameTime – a new AWS Twitch show

Contributors: Camille Jubin – Account Executive for France – AWS for Games, Darren Ko – Solutions Architect – SMB UKIR, Darshi McKenzie – Account Executive – AWS for Games, Florencia Huart – Senior Account Manager – AWS for Games, Taras Mogetich – EMEA Senior Business Development Rep – AWS for Games, Tristan Greaves – Solutions […]

Unreal Engine 5 dedicated server development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

Unreal Engine 5 dedicated server development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere

Building dedicated servers is challenging, and developers need the ability to quickly test and iterate on their games. The recently updated Amazon GameLift Server SDK from Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an Unreal Engine plugin that is compatible with both Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Engine 5. The plugin makes it easy for Unreal Engine […]

How indie studio, Blinkmoon, builds games entirely in the cloud

How indie studio, Blinkmoon, builds games entirely in the cloud

When Hugh Behroozy started building Blinkmoon Games, a new independent studio based in Vancouver, Canada, he wanted to bring together the best talent from across the visual effects (VFX) and games industry to create the next generation of interactive experiences. The only problem was, how do you attract talent to a Vancouver-based studio when some […]

Epic Games taps AWS Local Zones for Fortnite’s NA-Central servers

Epic Games taps AWS Local Zones for Fortnite’s NA-Central servers

Starting today, Epic Games will be using AWS Local Zones to support its new NA-Central server region in Fortnite. This new Fortnite server region will bring low latency gameplay to more players in the central United States and Mexico. The NA-Central server region will join the two other AWS-powered Fortnite server regions in North America, […]

Amazon GameLift launches support for customer managed infrastructure

Amazon GameLift now supports on-premises hardware with Amazon GameLift Anywhere launch

We are excited to announce the general availability of GameLift Anywhere, a new Amazon GameLift feature that decouples game session management from underlying compute resources. With this release, Amazon GameLift can now deploy and manage dedicated game servers hosted on-premises, in the cloud, or through hybrid configurations. The flexibility to deploy and manage game servers […]

Spectrum Labs’ AI does the heavy lifting of content moderation on gaming platforms

Spectrum Labs AI does the heavy lifting of content moderation on gaming platforms

Who likes having their payment processor drop them with no notice? Or having their app removed from the App Store? Exactly. Nobody likes that. That’s why Spectrum Labs’ content moderation AI is used by developers like Riot Games and Wildlife Studios to guard against toxic and illegal behavior. Spectrum Labs helps scale content moderation teams’ […]

Cloud Solutions Top of Mind for Game Developers in 2023

New AWS Survey Finds Cloud Solutions Are Top Of Mind for Game Developers in 2023

Blog Authors: David Holladay – AWS Game Tech Head of PMM & Ryan Greene – AWS Game Tech Sr. PMM This blog post presents data and findings from an annual survey of professional video game developers conducted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) during October and November, 2022, alongside details about new AWS for Games solutions […]