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This blog post describes how gaming customers can use health metrics to more easily monitor game performance by using Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. It provides an example overview of an online-gaming application architecture, outlines everyday issues and challenges with monitoring performance and availability for gamers, and describes how you can use Internet Monitor to identify […]

By Rob Schoeppe, General Manager, Global Game Tech Solutions & Business Development at AWS With the 2023 Game Developer’s Conference (GDC) just one week away, the AWS for Games team has been talking with our customers, partners, and internal team about the trends they think will have the largest impact on the industry over the […]

Persistent world use cases have become increasingly popular within multiplayer games, as well as across industries for all kinds of realtime virtual world applications. There are two main games server hosting architectures: session-based and persistent world games. Session-based games group players together through matchmaking for a single short-lived game session. Persistent world games, on the other hand, run the world simulation continuously, with players […]

Learn how the developer improved performance at scale while going fully autonomous As an independent video game developer, Small Impact Games (SIG) is accustomed to making the most of its resources to create player-centric experiences. Based in Leicester, England, the studio’s 12-person team has contributed to 22 different titles since its 2012 founding. In gearing […]

When Hugh Behroozy started building Blinkmoon Games, a new independent studio based in Vancouver, Canada, he wanted to bring together the best talent from across the visual effects (VFX) and games industry to create the next generation of interactive experiences. The only problem was, how do you attract talent to a Vancouver-based studio when some […]

Starting today, Epic Games will be using AWS Local Zones to support its new NA-Central server region in Fortnite. This new Fortnite server region will bring low latency gameplay to more players in the central United States and Mexico. The NA-Central server region will join the two other AWS-powered Fortnite server regions in North America, […]

AWS re:Invent was back in full force in 2022 with over 50,000 members of the global cloud community coming together in Las Vegas for the 11th edition of the conference. With dozens of new products launched and hundreds of breakout sessions to attend, there is always too much for one person to cover in four […]

Amazon GameLift enables developers to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated, low-cost servers for session-based, multiplayer games. Whether it’s creating a 200+ player battle royale game with Large Match Support or automatically adapting server capacity with player traffic using Autoscaling, GameLift leverages the power and reliability of AWS to provide seamless gameplay experiences for players worldwide. […]

AWS Training and Certification is excited to announce a new Game Tech learning path that organizes all Game Tech courses into one place. Whether you’re a solutions architect, game developer, data engineer, or data analyst, this learning path provides structured guidance on where to begin your training and next steps to gain expertise. As we develop new […]

We invited AWS APN Partner Polystream Platform Architect Scott Perham to write a guest blog. Learn how Polystream deliver 3D interactivity at scale using AWS services including Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).  We are witnessing the next evolution of cloud gaming, 3D interactive apps like 3D car configurators and collaborative development using cloud-based tools but there […]