Cloud Game Development

Increase developer velocity and achieve globally distributed collaboration with the broadest set of services and solutions from AWS and partners

Cloud Game Development Learning Plan

Did you know we offer 5 learning plans for AWS for Games? Visit our AWS for Games training center for free, public training for Cloud Game Development, Game Servers, Game Analytics, AI & Machine Learning, and Database solutions.

Enable your teams and accelerate your development

Collaborate across global teams with cloud game development
Build your game with flexibility in mind with AWS global infrastructure. Allow your team to create content, build and test, wherever they are located.
Integrate with the broadest set of game development partners
AWS for Games provides easy access to procure and use popular software and cloud services from industry partners that game developers are already comfortable with.
Accelerate productivity and ship game updates faster
Scale dynamically with a cost-effective build peipeline with proven experience and key capabilities such as Amazon FSx, EFS, EC2 Spot, Autoscaling to improve build times and number of releases.

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Build Pipelines

Benefit from faster game builds and convenient, distributed testing, without needing to procure, configure, operate, maintain, and upgrade fleets of physical computers.

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Version Control

Build a fast and scalable version control system, store assets in a central location, accessible by developers working remotely.

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Workstations

Create virtual workstations for artists and designers, and build storage workloads comprised of petabytes of data for both hybrid and full cloud pipelines.

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AWS services

Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Develop, build, test, and sign Apple apps on Amazon EC2.

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Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2 G4 Instances

The industry’s most cost-effective GPU instances for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications.

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Amazon Elastic Block Storage
Amazon FSx

Launch, run, and scale feature-rich and highly-performant file systems with just a few clicks.

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Customer stories

Read what our customers are saying about why they build their remote game production on AWS.

Sony Interactive Entertainment

How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS

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

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How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS
Gearbox Entertainment goes remote with AWS and Perforce
Gearbox Entertainment

Gearbox Entertainment goes remote with AWS and Perforce

Gearbox turned to AWS and AWS Partner Perforce to help keep its business running effectively with employees working from home by moving game production to the cloud.

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How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS
Epic Games

How Epic Games develops Fortnite faster with a build farm on AWS

Epic Games migrated its internal build farm from on-premises to AWS services, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, Epic drastically improved development iteration times and its rapid release cycle to continually deliver fresh content to players.

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Star Stable Reduces Build Times by 50% Using Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
Star Stable

Star Stable Reduces Build Times by 50% Using Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Star Stable Entertainment implemented EC2 Mac Instances and reduced build times, using on-demand scaling to adjust the power of its build environment as needed to deploy changes faster.

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Taking Apocalypse Studios to the Cloud via AWS
Vela Games

Vela Games Cuts Game Build Times by 60% Using Infrastructure on AWS

Vela Games is using the power of the cloud to develop its first game faster using Amazon FSx for OpenZFS reducing build times by 60 percent, freeing up time and resources to focus on creating a fantastic gaming experience for players. Vela powers its build farms with simple, 

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Innovate with key industry partners

Discover purpose-built AWS for Games solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.

AMD

TeamCity Cloud is a SaaS version of the powerful and intelligent CI/CD platform by JetBrains.

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Incredibuild

Incredibuild delivers a powerful solution that gives developers and DevOps managers a smart, scalable platform to continuously build, improve and release your product on time.

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JFrog

Nasuni Cloud File Services leverages Amazon S3 to consolidate NAS, distributed file server, backup, archiving, DR, and multi-site file synchronization capabilities in one scalable platform that spans the data center and the cloud.

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JFrog

JFrog Artifactory Cloud is a scalable, universal binary repository manager that provides end-to-end automation and management of your binaries and artifacts through the application delivery process.

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Epic Unreal Engine

Perforce Helix Core (P4D) helps development teams move faster, even as they work on complex products. It provides a single source of truth for all digital assets and scales to manage the largest global teams and large binary assets across industries.

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HP Anywhere

Nextira (formerly Six Nines Studio in the Cloud with Unreal Engine 5 is a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution custom-made for game development studios.

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JFrog

Parsec is an ultra-low latency remote desktop application. It gives you and your team access to computers in the cloud with a multi-monitor, 60+ frames per second, 4K connection while using minimal bandwidth and supporting peripheral devices like wacom tablets and gamepads.

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Epic Unreal Engine

Unreal Engine is the world's most open and advanced real-time 3D creation tool for photorealistic visuals and immersive experiences. This Amazon Machine Image (AMI) comes pre-loaded with the latest release of UE 5.2.1 and all its prerequisites so you can get straight to creating in the cloud with no downloads or installs.

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