Category: Amazon GameLift

Over 230 million Americans identify as gamers. Yet most will never buy a $500 console or a $1,500 PC, not because they don’t want to play, but because the cost of entry keeps climbing: hundreds (sometimes thousands) in hardware, hundreds of gigabytes in downloads, and frustrating maintenance just to keep things running.

For developers and publishers, the gap is even wider. Building a great game is only half the battle; without a way for players to experience it firsthand, building a player base relies on secondhand impressions. While trailers generate hype and reviews build credibility, neither can replicate the engagement of letting players experience the game for themselves.

Learn how Instant Play Demos powered by Amazon GameLift Streams are a unique approach to marketing video games. Studios can use them to present a time-bound slice of gameplay to potential players without requiring downloads or installs by using cloud game streaming.

In this post, we discuss some of the differences between the two hosting options and cover how to migrate from an Agones-based implementation to Amazon GameLift Servers.

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports using a dedicated AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) role that can grant your streaming game sessions access to AWS resources in your account. In this blog post, we show you how to use that role with a lightweight launcher script to persist game saves from your player’s streaming sessions to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) without needing to make any changes to your game code.

In this post, we show you the key considerations for building a dedicated mobile frontend that solves these challenges while reusing the existing backend infrastructure and AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) deployment pattern of Part 1.

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).

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 […]