Concrete Software has been designing and publishing games for mobile platforms, including iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and Microsoft Windows, since 2003. By using Amazon Cognito, the company can easily manage end-user identities, synchronize game data across platforms and devices, and rapidly deploy new games across smartphones and tablets helping them deliver a consistent user-experience.

Using AWS, GameSparks created a high performance infrastructure for its game-development services and can handle two billion API requests a month. GameSparks is one of the leading backend-as-a-service providers to the video games sector and is powered by Amazon Web Services. It makes extensive use of multiple services, including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS), Amazon Simple Storage Service, and AWS Lambda. 

By returning to AWS, Zynga is gaining greater agility, lower costs, and the freedom to experiment with new solutions to deliver world-class game experiences. Zynga is one of the world’s leading developers of social games. The company started using AWS again in 2015 for certain computing services after several years of operating its own private cloud. With changes to their business over the years—particularly a transition to mobile games—and an ever increasing focus on analytics, Zynga determined that it would stop running its own infrastructure and migrate certain workloads back to AWS.

With 70 million active users, Miniclip is among the world’s largest online gaming sites. Needing to improve time to market, Miniclip migrated its entire web and mobile gaming service from multiple on-premises data centers to AWS. The company reduced its time to market by 97% and reassigned 66% of its operations staff to work on more strategic projects using AWS.

Bandai Namco Studios Inc. chose to use AWS to release Drift Spirits, a free smartphone game, because of high server performance and availabilty, low costs, robust security, and availability—all of which support efficient operations. Bandai Namco Studios is an independent game development offshoot of Bandai Namco Games Inc. Using AWS OpsWorks enabled automation, operational efficiencies, and a shorter time to release, from testing environment to production and deployment.

Ubisoft scales to support millions of global gamers, deploys updates in minutes, and improves player experience using AWS. The company develops popular console and online video games used by millions of people worldwide. Ubisoft hosts online game services in the cloud, using Amazon ECS for orchestration and deployment.

The Finnish game company Supercell uses AWS to manage the growth of its wildly popular tablet and mobile games Hay Day and Clash of Clans. With more than 8.5 million daily players, Supercell needs the ease of use and scalability that AWS provides to create and run these games.

Nexon is a leading South Korean video game developer. The company uses AWS to build and distribute its games to an international audience as well as run its analytics platform. Nexon, which faces unpredictable volumes of users based on the popularity of game titles, uses AWS and works with APN Advanced Consulting Partner Megazone to avoid the high costs and IT resource planning challenges associated with on-premises systems.

Finland-based Rovio Entertainment is the entertainment media company behind such games as Angry Birds, Bad Piggies, and The Croods. By using AWS, Rovio now has an infrastructure that is elastic enough to scale for dramatic peaks in usage.

By using AWS, JKOS cut the IT costs of launching its business by 90 percent and reduced IT administration costs by 83 percent. JKOS has developed the JKOS app for multiple services including food delivery, taxi bookings and payments. The company supports its apps through the AWS Cloud using Amazon EC2 instances for compute, Amazon RDS for warehousing customer and vendor data, and Amazon S3 for storing images.