New matchmaking functionality intelligently
selects the lowest latency AWS region to launch each game
session
Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:
AMZN), today announced that Amazon GameLift now supports games
built with any C++ or C# game engine, including Amazon Lumberyard,
Unreal Engine, Unity, and custom developed engines. With Amazon
GameLift, developers can quickly scale their dedicated multiplayer
game servers to support millions of players using AWS’s highly
available cloud infrastructure, without investing thousands of
hours in upfront engineering. AWS also announced that Amazon
GameLift includes new matchmaking functionality that intelligently
selects the closest available game server based on each player’s
location, giving players the lowest possible latency by leveraging
AWS’s broad global footprint. Game developers only pay for the
compute, storage, and bandwidth resources their games use, with no
upfront commitments or monthly contracts. To get started with
Amazon GameLift, visit aws.amazon.com/gamelift.
Expectations for multiplayer games have never been higher.
Gamers demand short wait times to connect to games, imperceptible
server latency, and bulletproof stability. To meet these
expectations, game developers have needed to invest thousands of
hours of engineering to build systems that manage server
infrastructure and scale capacity. Amazon GameLift is a managed
service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game
servers for session-based multiplayer games. With Amazon GameLift,
developers simply add the Amazon GameLift SDK to their games,
upload their game servers, and launch the service in the AWS
Management Console. The service then automatically deploys game
servers across the AWS Cloud and starts connecting players to
games. Amazon GameLift’s new matchmaking functionality continually
scans available game servers around the world and matches them
against player requests to join games. If low-latency game servers
are not available, the service’s autoscaling feature can
automatically start one, hundreds, or even thousands of game
servers across AWS’s global regions. Autoscaling also eliminates
wasted capacity by stopping unused game servers in minutes,
lowering Amazon GameLift costs by an average of 50 percent. With
Amazon GameLift, developers can be confident that on day one that
their multiplayer games can scale to support millions of players,
while maintaining the high performance gamers expect.
“The majority of leading game companies use AWS, and our
customers have consistently asked us for an easier way to deploy,
operate, and scale dedicated game servers for their multiplayer
games,” said Chris Dury, General Manager, Amazon GameLift. “We
built Amazon GameLift to save developers time and money while
delivering world-class experiences for their players. We are
excited to now offer Amazon GameLift’s benefits to more game
developers by adding support for any C++ and C# game engine.”
Gearbox Software, the award-winning developer of blockbuster
franchises including Battleborn, Borderlands, and Brothers in Arms,
is beginning to deploy Amazon GameLift. “Now that Amazon GameLift
is available for all game engines, we’re excited about its
potential to help us deliver the lightning-fast, seamless online
multiplayer experiences our fans demand,” said Neil Johnson,
Technical Director at Gearbox Software.
Independent developer Proletariat uses Amazon GameLift to
quickly deploy and manage their multiplayer game servers. “For the
team at Proletariat, the choice was pretty simple – hire a team of
engineers to spend months building our own cloud infrastructure, or
launch our game on Amazon GameLift in a couple of days,” said Seth
Sivak, CEO of Proletariat. “Amazon GameLift made it easy for us to
inexpensively give our fans world-class online experiences.”
South Korea-based AON Interactive, a mobile game studio, is
adopting Amazon GameLift for their next game codenamed, Project
Road-99. A real-time, multiplayer racing game, Project Road-99
lets players create and share their own tracks and compete with
their friends. “Amazon GameLift is helping AON develop fast,
stable multiplayer experiences for our players on mobile devices in
any region of the world, with incredibly low latency,” said BR
Choi, CEO of AON Interactive. “Amazon GameLift’s ability to
smartly match players and instantly scale capacity will help AON
give our players the best possible experience, while saving us time
and money.”
Developers can start using Amazon GameLift using the AWS
Management Console or by downloading the SDK at
aws.amazon.com/gamelift. Amazon GameLift is available in the US
East (N. Virginia), US West (Oregon), EU Central (Frankfurt), EU
West (Ireland), Asia Pacific South (Mumbai), Asia Pacific Northeast
(Seoul and Tokyo), Asia Pacific Southeast (Singapore) and South
America East (São Paulo) Regions, with additional AWS Regions
coming soon.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
90 fully featured services for compute, storage, networking,
database, analytics, application services, deployment, management,
developer, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial
Intelligence (AI), security, hybrid and enterprise applications,
from 42 Availability Zones (AZs) across 16 geographic regions in
the U.S., Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India,
Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore, and the UK. AWS services are
trusted by millions of active customers around the world monthly --
including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises, and
leading government agencies -- to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit
https://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
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