Category: Game Development

For the leaders at Gamestar+, game night is more than a leisure activity—it’s an avenue to improved social collaboration. Learn how Gamestar+ engaged AWS Partner Integrated Media Technologies, Inc. (IMT) to to deliver live social game experiences on demand to any device that uses a streaming service. With few high-quality social game solutions in the marketplace, Gamestar+ sought to create its own offering on AWS with help from IMT.

Game service providers around the world are releasing new games and updating large-scale contents to attract game users. This post explores how you can leverage the benefits of Amazon CloudFront to deliver successful global gaming content and examines how to leverage CloudFront’s cache, especially in the gaming field. Additionally, CloudFront integrates with AWS Shield and AWS WAF to add flexible layer-specific security types from attacks at the network transport and application layers.

For microservices that predominantly write data, Amazon DynamoDB provides an “always on” experience without the need for careful capacity planning, resharding, and database maintenance. These capabilities make DynamoDB a popular database service for various parts of game platforms like player data, game state, session history, and leaderboards. Learn how to pair Amazon DynamoDB with an analytics solution like Rockset to automatically index your data for fast search, aggregations, and joins at scale.