Tag: AWS game development

Contributors: Camille Jubin – Account Executive for France – AWS for Games, Darren Ko – Solutions Architect – SMB UKIR, Darshi McKenzie – Account Executive – AWS for Games, Florencia Huart – Senior Account Manager – AWS for Games, Taras Mogetich – EMEA Senior Business Development Rep – AWS for Games, Tristan Greaves – Solutions […]

This blog post describes how gaming customers can use health metrics to more easily monitor game performance by using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. It provides an example overview of an online-gaming application architecture, outlines everyday issues and challenges with monitoring performance and availability for gamers, and describes how you can use Internet Monitor to identify […]

Written by Adam Hatfield, Pawan Matta and Daniel Whitehead Edited by Nathan Graves In part one of our series, we discussed the importance of management and governance of your AWS resources for Game Development Studios. We focused on deploying Landing Zones using AWS Control Tower and the services it orchestrates on your behalf, like AWS […]

Epic Games (Epic) went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business, which had exploded with the release of Fortnite—an online game that’s seen over 15.3 million concurrent players during live events. Fortnite runs almost entirely on AWS, including its worldwide game-server […]

We are excited to announce AWS GameKit is now available for the Unity game engine. AWS GameKit is a solution that allows game developers to deploy and customize game backend features directly from a game engine. AWS GameKit launched for Unreal engine on March 23, 2022, and with today’s release for Unity, game developers can […]

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability (GA) of an update to Amazon GameLift that expands support to AWS Local Zones, which increases coverage for game developers, while providing seamless, low-latency gameplay experiences for players. With this update, game developers can tap into 8 new Local Zones in Chicago, Houston, Dallas, Kansas City, […]

Authored by: Serge Poueme, Senior Solutions Architect and Yahav Biran, Principal Solutions Architect Game developers look for ways to improve online multiplayer experience while balancing availability and cost effectiveness. Containers and Kubernetes help modernize game server hosting running on virtual or bare metal machines to improve compute allocation density, optimize data-transfer cost and maintain high performance. […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is proud to announce the launch of Community Health on AWS, a set of solutions designed to help AWS for Games customers build and grow safe, inclusive, and fun online communities. Initial Community Health on AWS solutions include Spectrum Guardian for Games, a fully managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering from AWS Partner […]

Amazon GameSparks is a managed service that provides game developers features for building, running, and scaling the backend of their games; and is currently in preview. Today, we are excited to announce the addition of a new leaderboards feature to help drive player engagement. Game developers have told us they want to spend less time […]

This blog was written by Gena Gizzi and Noor Fairoza. A 2020 Global Market Insights report estimates that the 3D rendering market will hit $9 billion by 2026, especially with the rise of 3D enabling devices, high-speed internet and cloud technology. There is an increasing adoption of 3D technology across multiple industry verticals where the […]