Game Backend & Infrastructure

Persistent world games and applications provide players with immersive experiences, where they can play and interact with other users in worlds that persist between player sessions. Building these experiences can be challenging, as they need to be globally deployed, scaled, and monitored, with world specific player data stored in databases. Also, the world and player session management systems need to place players in worlds in a scalable way and control the player limits for each world. The Persistent World Games Infrastructure solutions on AWS provide reliable, global, and scalable ways to host different types of persistent virtual worlds and massive multiplayer online game experiences.

Game Backend as a Service

Load testing is a complex but critical step in the game development process, as it helps identify performance and scaling issues before impacting real players at launch. Game Infrastructure Load Testing solutions on AWS help studios simulate real-world player behavior and traffic patterns to identify performance bottlenecks and verify the infrastructure's ability to scale with player logins, matchmaking, and in-game purchases. This proactive approach enables studios to address issues before launch, ensuring a successful release and optimal player experience.

Game developers need direct access to players and to offer gameplay across multiple incompatible devices. Building this capability for an ever expanding number devices– consoles, mobile phones, TVs, and PCs, is technically challenging and can take months or years to develop and maintain. Game Streaming solutions on AWS enable players to start playing games in just a few seconds, without waiting for a download or an install and it delivers a high frame rate gameplay experience that is nearly indistinguishable from playing the game locally on a PC or gaming console. The solutions help publishers maintain full control over the player relationship, player experience, branding, and business model.