Category: Compute

This is the first post in a series that will discuss the foundational data workloads: player profiles, inventory, session management, and content configuration. Part 2 addresses live operations and social features: leaderboards, matchmaking, chat, social graph, and game analytics.

In this blog, we explain how Lore—an open-source version control system created by Epic Games—rethinks binary asset storage by splitting files into content-addressed fragments that eliminate redundancy and make branching effectively free. We also share the reference architecture developed with Epic for deploying Lore on AWS using services like Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

The purpose of this post is to highlight how to convert 2D art and game assets into 3D assets using open source models on the lowest level of the tech stack possible: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

In this post, we continue with the real-time, social, and analytical workloads: leaderboards, matchmaking, chat, social graph, and game analytics. Each of these has distinct access patterns that require different database choices. This post assumes familiarity with AWS database services and basic game backend architecture.

In this blog post, I present a new solution that you can use to iterate quickly on new game server versions and host multiple different versions on a single Amazon GameLift Servers fleet.

Quality game streaming requires instant responsiveness. Players expect to click and play, without waiting for infrastructure to provision or for long loading times to complete. Today, we’re excited to announce enhanced auto scaling capabilities for Amazon GameLift Streams that deliver both faster stream availability and intelligent cost optimization through an elastic, demand-based scaling system. Amazon […]

Modern game development demands operational sophistication that extends well beyond the creative process. As studios navigate the journey from concept to launch, a few challenges consistently emerge when getting outside perspectives on the game. Quality assurance at scale remains a persistent bottleneck, with traditional playtesting workflows involving downloading builds, coordinating sessions, and manually reviewing recorded […]

Note: AnyCompany Games is a fictional company created to illustrate common challenges and solutions in game development. If you’re building games with a distributed team, you’ve likely faced the challenge of setting up version control, build systems, and cloud infrastructure. This post shows you how the AWS Cloud Game Development Toolkit can deploy a complete […]

Game development often begins long before anything is playable. Teams spend weeks brainstorming concepts, months creating designs, and countless hours implementing and testing mechanics before an interactive demo is created. The challenge isn’t only timeline constraints; critical validation and refinement traditionally happen late in the development cycle, when changes become costly and creative pivots are […]

In the complex ecosystem of gaming, players expect seamless experiences across multiple platforms, such as PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and mobile app stores. Each platform maintains its own authentication protocols, token formats, and security requirements. This creates a fragmented landscape that poses significant challenges for game developers and infrastructure teams. To address these challenges, Amazon Game […]