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Game integrity and cheat detection using AWS Game Analytics Pipeline, Amazon Quick, and Kiro agentic IDE

Game integrity and cheat detection using AWS Game Analytics Pipeline, Amazon Quick, and Kiro agentic IDE

Cheating in online games erodes player trust, damages competitive integrity, and can drive players away. Game studios need a scalable analytics pipeline to detect anomalous player behavior. In this post, we show how to build a game integrity proof of concept (POC) using the Guidance for Game Analytics Pipeline on AWS, Amazon Athena, and Amazon […]

Streaming Windows Games using Proton 9 on Amazon GameLift Streams

Players expect instant, click-to-play experiences across any device, and Amazon GameLift Streams helps customers build these experiences for games and streaming application use cases. While playing video games traditionally relies on the Windows operating system, Amazon GameLift Streams can run Windows-based games, or applications, on a Windows or Proton runtime. Proton is a compatibility layer […]

Setting up a Minecraft Java server on Amazon EC2

Introduction This blog covers how to deploy your own personal Minecraft Java server on AWS. Hosting your server on AWS can eliminate common networking challenges and security concerns associated with at-home servers. Because you have control over the virtual machine, you can configure any mods or plugins that you want. We will use Amazon Elastic […]