AWS for Games Blog

In this blog, we explain how Lore—an open-source version control system created by Epic Games—rethinks binary asset storage by splitting files into content-addressed fragments that eliminate redundancy and make branching effectively free. We also share the reference architecture developed with Epic for deploying Lore on AWS using services like Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

Learn how network bandwidth is now included at no additional charge for all Amazon GameLift Servers instances, generation 6 or newer (c6, m6, c7, m7 etc. instance families).

The purpose of this post is to highlight how to convert 2D art and game assets into 3D assets using open source models on the lowest level of the tech stack possible: Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances.

In this post, we continue with the real-time, social, and analytical workloads: leaderboards, matchmaking, chat, social graph, and game analytics. Each of these has distinct access patterns that require different database choices. This post assumes familiarity with AWS database services and basic game backend architecture.

Learn how for the 2026 Kentucky Derby, TwinSpires introduced Paddock PRO, an agentic AI solution that assists players by delivering continuously updated information related to horses, connections, track conditions, and more.

In this blog post, I present a new solution that you can use to iterate quickly on new game server versions and host multiple different versions on a single Amazon GameLift Servers fleet.

Learn how Amazon GameLift Streams opens opportunities for developers to create new gameplay options, revenue opportunities, and enhanced engagement.

Quality game streaming requires instant responsiveness. Players expect to click and play, without waiting for infrastructure to provision or for long loading times to complete. Today, we’re excited to announce enhanced auto scaling capabilities for Amazon GameLift Streams that deliver both faster stream availability and intelligent cost optimization through an elastic, demand-based scaling system. Amazon […]

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is taking over the iconic City View at METREON for this year’s Game Developers Conference (GDC) Festival of Gaming for exclusive events, demos, and gameplay experiences. As the annual conference celebrates its 40th year in San Francisco, CA, AWS will dive deep into the technologies and trends transforming the future of […]

As games grow in popularity, they also become attractive targets for malicious actors seeking to disrupt gameplay through Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. An attack occurring during the initial launch of a game, during a visible esports tournament, or while a notable influencer/streamer is playing can have a significant impact on a game’s success […]