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Riot Games prepares to close its last data center as it completes global migration to AWS
At AWS re:Invent, Riot Games’ Head of Global Infrastructure and Operations, Brent Rich, outlined how the company is in the final stages of its multi-year global datacenter decommissioning effort, which will be completed in early 2024. Through this effort, Riot is bringing servers closer than ever to players of Riot titles, including League of Legends, […]
Vela Games Cuts Game Build Times by 60% Using Infrastructure on AWS
Vela Games (Vela) is using the power of the cloud to develop its first game faster. By using scalable infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Vela can do more with less, freeing up time and resources to focus on creating a fantastic gaming experience for players. Vela powers its build farms with simple, high-performance shared […]
How Piepacker leverages Amazon Chime SDK to reinvent “Couch Gaming”
Piepacker “Play Together” Back in the late 2019, Benjamin Devienne and Jules Testard came up with the idea to recreate “couch gaming” through a web browser. As the pandemic disrupted our lives in early 2020, the realization that people need to see each other while enjoying entertainment activities became apparent and the idea of “couch […]
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 […]