Let’s hear it for the gamedevs who show us all how

Whether you’re clashing clans, raiding tombs, or winning your hard-earned chicken dinners, there’s little doubt that video games have made a major impact on pop culture. Games help us recharge in quiet moments on the go; they thrill us, scare us, challenge us, and teach us new skills.

For that, we have game developers to thank. These passionate technologists test the limits of hardware, software, and tooling in order to deliver amazing gameplay experiences into the hands of gamers globally. Living at the intersection of computer science and storytelling, they challenge boundaries to transport people into a whole other world—even if it’s just for a few minutes at a time. They’re the unsung heroes behind all our favorite games.

To build a great game, devs need great game tech. That’s why we’re excited to introduce you to the first instalment in our ‘AWS is How’ Game Tech series—a collection of customer interviews from; Fatshark, Flaregames, Frontier, Gameloft, Milestone and Rovio, where we’ve focused on a single game from each studio’s portfolio of titles. As we take you through the game’s history and evolution, we’ll look at how technology helps bring it to life.

These stories provide an insider’s perspective into the games enjoyed by millions of players, and celebrate some of the most talented game devs working in the industry today. The challenges they’ve faced are complex and varied. From dealing with petabytes of game data, to building low-latency multiplayer games in the cloud, and training machine learning models to identify gameplay anomalies, these teams have all turned to AWS to deliver more enjoyable gameplay experiences.

Because in the end, the only thing that matters to players and devs alike is that a game is fun. As a team of gamers ourselves, AWS Game Tech is committed to helping developers create amazing experiences. So, to the passionate customers building incredible games on AWS, thank you. This series is dedicated to all of you.

Read all of the interviews here to learn how technology powers your favourite games.