Category: Best Practices

To provide a low latency multiplayer experience for your players, you want to host the game sessions physically as close as possible to your players. Amazon GameLift supports 24 Regions and nine Local Zones—continually adding more support across the world. This allows you to centrally manage a global game server fleet from a single home […]

Azur Games , a mobile game publisher and developer, recently achieved over 8 billion game installs across their portfolio of hypercasual games. In the beginning of 2024, Azur Games migrated all 120 TB of their active game telemetry data to ClickHouse Cloud on Amazon Web Services (AWS), a fully managed service that allows companies to […]

Authored by Molly Sheets and edited by Kyle Somers Today’s games need specialized content to increase retention, drive monetization, and promote feature adoption. No game has a singular player persona: Two players can have vastly different engagement metrics and styles of play over their lifetime with a portfolio. Indie developers and AAA developers alike are […]

As video games rise in popularity and more games move toward free-to-play models, there’s more opportunity for fraudulent behavior among players. Fraud is problematic for studios because it devalues in-game currency that’s bought with real money and the digital goods that can be purchased with it. Fraud also causes players to lose trust in the […]

Your players expect a great in-game experience, with low latency and uninterrupted play. But, as the number of concurrent players grows, so does the complexity of your IP management and the likelihood of latency inducing routing problems. AWS Global Accelerator simplifies traffic routing, improves availability, and improves performance for your game by as much as […]

AWS Game Tech has more services than any other cloud provider. We also offer a variety of solutions for your game server compute needs. AWS provides world-class network performance, including 100 Gbps Ethernet performance for select instances, for the most scalable and elastic network for high performance computing for games.  Game Tech’s global game server […]

Your game service has many different jobs—from leaderboards, authentication, and game logic servers to matchmaking and more—and you need to choose the right technology for each one. Some services need a persistent connect, but many can use REST APIs. These two approaches are called stateful and stateless, which is often referred to as RESTful. With […]