AWS for Games Blog
Category: Compute
Dream11 gained significant performance and saved 42% compute cost by simply migrating to the Graviton2 instance family
With over 120 million users, Dream11 is the world’s largest fantasy sports platform that offers fantasy cricket, football, kabaddi, basketball, hockey, volleyball, handball, rugby, futsal, American football & baseball, on it. Dream11 is the flagship brand of Dream Sports, India’s leading Sports Technology company and has partnerships with several national & international sports bodies and […]
Migrating from bare metal to the cloud, KIXEYE’s journey
KIXEYE, a leading creator and publisher of massively multiplayer online real-time strategy games (MMORTS), first began experimenting with the cloud almost a decade ago when KIXEYE successfully moved across one of its games, VEGA Conflict. And now, after a 7 year-long journey, KIXEYE has successfully migrated all of its game portfolio to AWS. Most known […]
Stream a remote environment with NICE DCV over QUIC UDP for a 4K monitor at 60 FPS
In recent years, game development has become increasingly distributed. In 2020, COVID-19 accelerated the demand and innovation for remote solutions. Game teams of all shapes and sizes were left with two choices: rush to take home workstations and then use their virtual private network (VPN) to access the office, or leave office development workstations and […]
How to build online multiplayer games using Amazon GameLift, AWS Serverless, and C++
Online multiplayer games have a long list of requirements to provide the best possible experience for players: game clients need identities that can securely access the game backend, backend services are required to host functionalities like matchmaking and player data, and you need a scalable way to host game sessions. In this post you’ll learn […]
How NaturalMotion Migrated Dawn of Titans to Amazon EKS
Running games as services can have some serious perks. Players get to enjoy their favourite games for longer, and developers can see ongoing success from a single game for years. But games with longer lifespans can also generate heavy overheads for development teams. Game studios are expected to deliver new experiences to players in increasingly […]
Zero performance compromise: Gearbox Entertainment goes remote with AWS and Perforce
Gearbox Entertainment, founded by Randy Pitchford, is an award-winning game development studio and publisher known for creating games for smash hit game franchises including Half-Life, Borderlands, and Brothers in Arms. The company’s creative capabilities have seen it excel not just in video games, but also in comic books, action figures, apparel, art prints, novels, non-fiction […]
Compiling Unreal Engine 4 Dedicated Servers for AWS Graviton EC2 Instances
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company responsible for some of the world’s largest games including Fortnite, and also develops Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine is a world leading open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool. Continuously evolving, it not only powers the world’s leading games, it also offers creators across industries the freedom and […]
Building Our Game on AWS – Lessons Learned by Leaftail Labs
Guest post authored by Eli Tayrien, CTO and Co-founder, Leaftail Labs. Leaftail Labs was formed in 2017 by a pair of game industry veterans who saw exciting possibilities in mobile AR gaming. Our first game, Nibblity, recently launched worldwide, and we are excited to continue to deliver more excited content for you and your Nibblins […]
How the power of voice can supercharge gaming
Doppio is a voice game developer based in the sunny part of Europe that has created voice game hits such as The Vortex, The 3% Challenge, and the iconic PAC-MANTM WAKA WAKA. Jeferson Valadares is a game veteran bringing his experience from renowned studios such as BioWare, Playfish, Digital Chocolate, and BANDAI NAMCO. Christopher Barnes […]
Improving the Player Experience by Leveraging AWS Global Accelerator and Amazon GameLift FleetIQ
Building a game to serve worldwide users over the internet can be challenging. In this two-part series, we’ll walk you through how game developers improve the player experience worldwide in order to deploy more efficiently, achieve lower latency, improve in-game performance, and deliver game content faster. In this first post, we focus on how to […]