AWS for Games

Transforming game workloads with purpose-built cloud services and solutions.

Latest news and updates

Create next generation game experiences with AWS

Game developers are embracing industry-wide transformation, with studios pushing the latest technology boundaries and delivering continuously updated gaming experiences that scale to tens of millions of players. AWS for Games aligns purpose-built game  development capabilities – including AWS services, AWS solutions, and AWS Partners – against six solution areas to help developers build, run, and grow their games: Cloud Game Development, Game Servers, Live Operations, Game Analytics, Game Security, and AI & Machine Learning.

Benefits

Purpose-built industry services and solutions

AWS aligns purpose-built game development capabilities —including  AWS Services, AWS Solutions, and AWS Partners—against six solution areas to help customers build, run, and grow their games: Cloud Game Development, Game Servers, Game Security, LiveOps, Game Analytics, AI & ML.

290+ game development partners

Accelerate deployment support across key solution areas using leading industry technology partners, including AWS Partners such as AMD, AppsFlyer, Beamable, Databricks, Epic Games, Incredibuild, NVIDIA, Parsec, Perforce, Slalom, Snowflake, and Teradici; as well as dedicated AWS industry specialists and AWS Professional Services teams.

Unmatched game developer experience

AWS brings 15 years of experience supporting transformation for leading industry customers such as Sony Interactive Entertainment, Epic Games, Gearbox Software, Riot Games, Behaviour Interactive, Warner Bros. Games, Ubisoft, The Pokémon Company International, SundayToz, Redhill Games, Gameloft, and Kixeye. 

Customer stories

Customers reinventing games with AWS

Riot Games

Introducing LoL Esports Global Power Rankings powered by AWS!

AWS and Riot Games unveiled Global Power Rankings, a dynamic, data-driven rankings engine powered by AWS technology that aims to contextualize team strength across League of Legends. Fans get a real time understanding of where their favorite teams stack up as well as the competitive landscape as a whole.

Learn more »
WB Games
Epic Games

WB Games

Learn how Epic Games is leveraging AWS services such as Amazon EC2 to scale capacity just-in-time and support remote creators.

Explore the case study »

Sony Interactive Entertainment
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment

Sony Interactive Entertainment is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS.

Explore the case study »

Gearbox Software
Gearbox Software

Gearbox Software

Gearbox Software was able to handle its largest worldwide launch of millions of concurrent players using AWS. 

Explore the case study »

WB Games
WB Games

WB Games

WB Games uses AWS to capture, ingest, analyze, and action insights to help developers become more agile with their storytelling. 

Explore the case study »

CAPCOM
CAPCOM

CAPCOM

CAPCOM builds fun games fast with containers, data, and ML.

Explore the case study »

Gameloft
Gameloft

Gameloft

Gameloft sees smooth launch for LEGO Legacy: Heroes Unboxed all in on AWS.

Explore the case study »

Rovio
Rovio

Rovio

Rovio uses machine learning on AWS to predict and deliver the perfect level of fun for players.

Explore the case study »

Explore services and solutions to build, run, and grow games

Build

Cloud Game Development

Cloud Game Development

Build game development pipelines for distributed teams working anywhere in the world

Learn more »

Run

Game Servers and Networking

Game Servers

Run multiplayer games in the cloud at scale with secure, resizable compute capacity, while leveraging the AWS global infrastructure to provide a low latency player experience globally

Learn more »
Game Security

Game Security

Build and operate games with security in mind, ensuring players have fun, safe experiences

Learn more »
Databases for Games

Databases for Games

Whether leaderboards, virtual goods, or even cheat detection, players generate a ton of data that needs to be processed, stored, and accessed in real-time. Modernize the data infrastructure with AWS fully managed, purpose-built databases to delight players

Learn more »

Grow

Game Analytics

Game Analytics

Understand, grow, and retain players by making better design decisions with game analytics and big data solutions

Learn more »
AI & Machine Learning

AI & Machine Learning

Take advantage of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning to build, run, and grow games

Learn more »
LiveOps

LiveOps

Keep players updated and engaged without incurring downtime or degrading the player experience

Learn more »

Solutions on AWS

Guidance for Persistent World Game Hosting on AWS

Build persistent world games and host virtual worlds on AWS using Amazon GameLift and serverless backend components.

Get started »

Guidance for the Game Tech Cohort Modeler on AWS

Create a thorough behavioral profile of game players to gain further insights into how players interact, participate, and socialize.

Get started »

Read success stories of Games customers and see behind the scenes architectures.

Move faster with leading industry partners

To help customers accelerate deployments with solution-specific support, AWS identifies leading AWS games partners across the solution areas.

AppsFlyer

Keep your players playing and coming back for more by leveraging holistic measurement data and tools that will help you acquire, retain, and engage high-value players.

Learn more »
Cockroach Labs

CockroachDB on AWS is built to survive massive increases in traffic, support millions of players in real-time, and deliver a flawless experience.

Learn more »
Databricks

Databricks is the data and AI company. Gaming organizations worldwide rely on Databricks’ open, unified platform for data engineering, machine learning and analytics.

Learn more »
Epic Online Services

Epic Online Services is a free, open and modular set of online services for game development on any Engine, any Store, any Platform

Learn more »
Globant

Globant scales development of multiplatform world-class games and services across console, PC, mobile and web.

Learn more »
Incredibuild

Slash game development compilation times right out of the box, without changing your code, tools or processes, while optimizing cloud cost.

Learn more »
Perforce Software

The only versioning & collaboration suite that scales to meet the needs of game creation. Used by indies as well as 19 of the top 20 AAA game studios

Learn more »
Slalom

From big studios to small, Slalom’s gaming and analytics experts can easily spin up your pipelines and dashboards with Amazon QuickSight before your next launch

Learn more »

AWS Marketplace

Game developer solutions from AWS Partners are also available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.

Spectrum Labs, Inc.

Guardian for Games, detect and stop harmful behaviors to optimize the player experience and grow your community.

Learn more »
Beamable

Easy-to-adopt platform works directly inside the Unity editor. Scale fast and easily add social, commerce & content management features to your game.

Beamable on the AWS Marketplace »
Heroic Labs

Nakama is an open-source scalable multiplayer game server and social backend solution that lets you focus on building games, not infrastructure.

Heroic Labs on the AWS Marketplace »

New to AWS for Games?

Choose from a range of game developer courses, explore our ramp-up guide, or build skills with a hands-on lab. 

Stay up-to-date with AWS for Games

Sign up for the newsletter
Get AWS for Games updates
Sign up for the newsletter to get the latest and greatest from AWS for Games in your inbox.
Get the newsletter 
Create an AWS account
Sign up for an AWS Account
Create a free AWS account and starting building game workloads in the cloud today.
Sign up for free 
Create an AWS account
Connect with us on social media

Follow us on social media to stay up-to-date about what's new from AWS for Games.

Scheduel a callback

Contact us.

Whether you’re a team of one or one thousand, we’d love to learn more about your game development needs.