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AWS for Games gives you everything you need to build, run, and grow innovative gaming experiences. Leaders across the games industry rely on AWS’ more than 16 years of games expertise to launch and run some of the world’s biggest games including Fortnite, Roblox, and League of Legends. AWS and over 300 AWS Games Partners offer the broadest and deepest set of purpose-built services and pre-built solutions for cloud game development, content creation, game backend & infrastructure, and player acquisition, retention & monetization. These empower game developer to build healthy global player communities, gain player insights, and personalize and monetize player experiences to build lifelong fans. 750 million gamers each month, around the world, play games built on AWS.
Benefits
AWS and over 300 AWS Games Partners offer the broadest and deepest set of purpose-built services and pre-built solutions, empowering game developer to discover and select the best-fit tools and games-specific experts to address their unique business needs and accelerate breakthrough gaming experiences.
Launch day matters and a failure on day one can be catastrophic for a new game. Leaders across the games industry rely on AWS’ more than 16 years of games expertise to launch and run some of the world’s biggest games including Fortnite, Roblox, and League of Legends.
Extend the life of your game and keep innovating with services that help you keep your players engaged longer. AWS empowers studios to optimize player acquisition, retain engaged players, and drive monetization strategies that deepen player relationships.
Customer stories
Customers reinventing games with AWS
Epic Games on AWS
Epic Games went all in on AWS 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 and over 110 million active players.
Riot Games
Learn how Riot Games rapidly deploys gamer servers, reduces latency, creaties a level playing field for all players in Valorant using AWS.
Electronic Arts
Learn how Electronic Arts streamlines game patching with AWS.
Zynga
Learn how Zynga modernized its mobile game platform and leveled up its analytics and data science efforts with AWS.
The Pokémon Company International
Learn how The Pokémon Company International reduced monthly costs by migrating from a third-party NoSQL document database to a fully managed AWS database service.
Scopely
Learn how Scopely scaled “MONOPOLY GO!” for millions of players around the globe with AWS.
Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS.
Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software was able to handle its largest worldwide launch of millions of concurrent players using AWS.
WB Games
WB Games uses AWS to capture, ingest, analyze, and action insights to help developers become more agile with their storytelling.
Explore services and solutions to build, run, and grow games
Build
Cloud Game Development
Increase developer velocity and achieve globally distributed collaboration with the broadest set of services and solutions from AWS and partners.
Game Content Creation
Prototype and create game assets, render cut-scenes, and create custom in-game experiences.
Run
Game Backend Infrastructure
Run multiplayer games in the cloud at scale with secure, resizable compute capacity, while leveraging the AWS infrastructure to provide a low latency player experience at global scale.
Grow
Player Acquisition, Engagement, & Monetization
Extend the life of your game and accelerate business growth by focusing on acquisition, engagement, and monetization.
Regulated Gaming
Regulated Gaming Technology
Industry-leading IT services and solutions for use by licensed Betting & Gaming operators and suppliers.
Move faster with leading industry partners
To help customers accelerate deployments with solution-specific support, AWS identifies leading AWS games partners across the solution areas.
Unreal Engine (UE) and AWS combine advanced 3D game development technology with purpose-built global infrastructure capabilities to help creators build and scale amazing experiences.
Slash game development compilation times right out of the box, without changing your code, tools or processes, while optimizing cloud cost.
Nakama (on Heroic Cloud) is the managed cloud offering from Heroic Labs, enabling you to collaboratively operate, manage and monitor your Nakama instances across your entire organization, no matter the scale.
Keep your players playing and coming back for more by leveraging holistic measurement data and tools that will help you acquire, retain, and engage high-value players.
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