2021
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How Epic Games develops Fortnite faster with a build farm on AWS

Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of real-time 3D creation technology. Epic is also the creator of Fortnite—one of the world’s most popular games, with over 350 million accounts. In this session, learn how with the help of AWS, Fortnite entertains players around the world, years after its initial release in 2017. By migrating its internal build farm from on premises to AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Cloud Compute (Amazon EC2) and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Epic drastically improved development iteration times and its rapid release cycle to continually deliver fresh content to players.

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So we needed to deliver value quickly. We needed to be able to deliver a scalable, maintainable, highly available solution, and it needed to be performant. It needed to be more performant than what we had on prem. And so we dove into AWS."

Alex Carberry
Infrastructure Architect, Epic Games

AWS Services Used

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)

Amazon S3 is an object storage service offering industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.

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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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