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Player profiles to leaderboards: Choosing the right AWS database, Part 2

Player profiles to leaderboards: Choosing the right AWS database, Part 2

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.