Category: Database

This is the first post in a series that will discuss the foundational data workloads: player profiles, inventory, session management, and content configuration. Part 2 addresses live operations and social features: leaderboards, matchmaking, chat, social graph, and game analytics.

In this blog, we explain how Lore—an open-source version control system created by Epic Games—rethinks binary asset storage by splitting files into content-addressed fragments that eliminate redundancy and make branching effectively free. We also share the reference architecture developed with Epic for deploying Lore on AWS using services like Amazon EC2, Amazon ECS, Amazon S3, and Amazon DynamoDB.

In this post, we continue with the real-time, social, and analytical workloads: leaderboards, matchmaking, chat, social graph, and game analytics. Each of these has distinct access patterns that require different database choices. This post assumes familiarity with AWS database services and basic game backend architecture.

Note: AnyCompany Games is a fictional company created to illustrate common challenges and solutions in game development. If you’re building games with a distributed team, you’ve likely faced the challenge of setting up version control, build systems, and cloud infrastructure. This post shows you how the AWS Cloud Game Development Toolkit can deploy a complete […]

Game development often begins long before anything is playable. Teams spend weeks brainstorming concepts, months creating designs, and countless hours implementing and testing mechanics before an interactive demo is created. The challenge isn’t only timeline constraints; critical validation and refinement traditionally happen late in the development cycle, when changes become costly and creative pivots are […]

Today, we’ll explore how Amazon DocumentDB Serverless helps game developers streamline operations, handle unpredictable traffic, and optimize cost. What is Amazon DocumentDB Serverless Amazon DocumentDB Serverless is an on-demand, auto scaling configuration for Amazon DocumentDB (with MongoDB compatibility). It automatically scales capacity up or down in fine-grained increments based on your application’s demand. It eliminates […]

In the complex ecosystem of gaming, players expect seamless experiences across multiple platforms, such as PlayStation, Xbox, Steam, and mobile app stores. Each platform maintains its own authentication protocols, token formats, and security requirements. This creates a fragmented landscape that poses significant challenges for game developers and infrastructure teams. To address these challenges, Amazon Game […]

Faced with integrating TikTok functionality into their new mobile game, World Reborn, Wicked Saints Studios encountered a dilemma. Available market solutions were either prohibitively expensive, time-consuming to implement, or lacked TikTok integration entirely. To meet their pressing deadline, while maintaining cost efficiency, the studio developed a creative solution by building upon existing Amazon Web Services […]

Building mobile games that stand out in a fast-growing market requires more than just great gameplay. Having cracked the code on data-driven innovation powered by AWS, Turkish games studio Hypermonk Games has developed casual racing and simulation titles that have racked up over 100 million downloads to date. The company is refining its development approach […]

You’re developing a multiplayer game, but aren’t certain about how to efficiently host, scale, and monitor the game server fleet globally. You’re also thinking about how to place sessions efficiently around the world for the best player experience. Building the required infrastructure from scratch can be overwhelming. We recommend Amazon GameLift Servers, a fully managed […]