Riot Games, the development company behind League of Legends, VALORANT, and other popular online multiplayer games, is taking full advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to deliver low latency and highly competitive experiences to players on a global scale. In this video, Brent Rich, head of global infrastructure and operations at Riot Games, shares how the company transformed from a single-game company depending on local data centers to support its hundreds of millions of players to a cloud-first gaming company with several major titles.

Moving hundreds of thousands of players from on-premises data centers to the cloud with minimal downtime requires a unique mix of engineering, planning, and collaboration. In this session, learn how Riot Games, AWS, and Slalom globally migrated League of Legends and VALORANT from the data center to AWS Regions and AWS Local Zones.

In this session, learn how you can improve the quality of your mobile and web apps by running tests on real devices at scale with AWS Device Farm. Hear from Riot Games, a leading game developer and publisher, about how they use Device Farm to streamline their mobile app testing process, improve the quality of their mobile games and SDKs, run automated and manual tests on real devices in the cloud, identify and fix issues faster, and release updates more frequently. Hear how Riot takes advantage of the newly released support for VPC connectivity to Private Devices to securely access AWS Device Farm from within their own VPC, ensuring that their testing data remains private and secure.

Live entertainment and in-person experiences continue to be important to consumers, yet they present unique challenges in ensuring that all attendees have a great time and want to return. New and emerging cloud technologies can now play a key role in creating more memorable and more personalized live experiences with less friction, which in turn is helping entertainment companies reimagine and optimize the attendee experience whether in the venue, on the go, or at home. Join this panel discussion to learn how AWS technologies are starting to play an important role in live experiences such as sporting events, esports, and concerts.

AWS hybrid and edge services extend AWS from Regions and Availability Zones to local metros, on premises, and the far edge, bringing AWS closer to your end users and workloads. In this session, learn how you can run latency-sensitive applications in more locations around the world with AWS Local Zones, AWS Wavelength Zones, AWS Outposts, and the AWS Snow Family. Discover how organizations are deploying applications that require single-digit millisecond latencies across media and entertainment content creation, cybersecurity, digital advertising, healthcare research, high-frequency stock trading, virtual reality technology, and more.

To provide players with global availability and secure, low latency access, Riot Games migrated hundreds of millions of player accounts into a consolidated, globally-replicated composite database cluster on Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, Riot Games kept its esports rolling with a cloud-based workflow built on Amazon EC2. Now, Riot is taking it to the next level with Project Stryker, a set of three remote broadcast facilities and a follow-the-sun operations model. Utilizing Amazon WorkSpaces and AWS Elemental, Riot strives to build the first-of-its-kind cloud-native remote broadcast operations model in order to produce its largest global esports events, League of Legends Worlds and VALORANT Champions. In this session, follow Riot’s esports journey from a stopgap solution to laying the foundation for the next generation of esports fandom.

Riot Games ingests about 20 TB of data every day on AWS. This data powers a wide range of services including game matchmaking, in-game personalization, analytics, security, and player behavior management. Until recently, this data was only queryable for up to 6 hours after it was produced. With Amazon MSK, the team reduced time down to 5 minutes. Amazon MSK also allowed Riot Games to lower TCO and deprecate an aging map-reduce-based pipeline. In this session, Riot Games describes the before state, migration path, current state and future state of their data ingestion pipeline.

The Riot Act is an automated summary of strategic insights, opportunities, and actions that are customized by teams. In this session, learn how AWS and Riot Games built a solution that unifies cost, usage, recommendations, performance, governance, and security into a data lake and prescriptive reporting engine.