Customer Stories / Games
2021
Epic Games Delivers Entertainment Experiences at Global Scale on AWS
Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Responsible for Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million players, Epic Games also created Unreal Engine, which powers some of the world’s leading games and is utilized across industries including game development, film and television, and automotive. Building on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and using services such as Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), the company delivers cutting-edge entertainment experiences that delight millions of concurrent players all over the world. On AWS, Epic Games automatically scales compute capacity to meet constant fluctuations in player demand, supporting up to 30 times load during peak times while reducing operational costs using Savings Plans.
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
Amazon EC2 offers the broadest and deepest compute platform, with over 500 instances and choice of the latest processor, storage, networking, operating system, and purchase model to help you best match the needs of your workload.
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Epic Games on AWS
Epic Games is the interactive entertainment company behind Fortnite, one of the world's most popular video games with over 350 million players. Founded in 1991, Epic transformed gaming with the release of Unreal Engine—the 3D creation engine powering hundreds of games now used across industries, such as automotive, film and television, and simulation, for real-time production.
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Epic Games Enables Creators to Build Over 2 Million Digital Humans and Launches RealityScan App on AWS
Epic Games vice president of Unreal Engine Nathan Thomas shares how Epic is pushing technology to change how all industries engage with both physical and digital worlds using AWS. -
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Epic Games launches RealityScan app on AWS; announces 2M MetaHumans milestone at re:Invent
AWS enables Epic to cost-efficiently scale RealityScan to support tens of thousands of creators, turning images into digital models of real-world objects that can be used in simulations, automotive, and film/TV projects. -
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