At now.gg, we want to offer mobile gamers the best experiences regardless of their smartphone hardware specs” said Rosen Sharma, President and CEO now.gg. “There are two challenges in offering a cloud-based mobile gaming service. The first challenge is technical—for mobile gaming you need powerful GPUs and Arm-based CPUs working together. The second challenge is to be able to offer mobile gaming at a price point which makes the business viable. Amazon EC2 G5g instances are a major leap forward in both these dimensions, and we have been working closely with AWS to run NowCloudOS on top of G5g instances to bring these benefits to mobile gaming.

Voice chat in video-game communities is essential for socialization and engagement, but suffers from rampant toxicity that harms players and increases churn. Modulate uses machine learning to proactively detect harassment and other harms in live voice conversations, creating a more safe and inclusive place for gamers to play. Amazon EC2 G5g instances are an essential backbone in Modulate's capability to offer realtime cost-effective voice moderation technology, and have reduced our machine learning inference costs by up to 70%.

Embedded software development for automotive software-defined functions such as ADAS, autonomous driving, and infotainment faces challenges. The differences between the development environment and the edge slow innovation and time to market due to the need to cross-compile and revalidate the software stack between the hardware platforms. By employing the SOAFEE framework running on Amazon EC2 G5g instances, powered by Arm-based Graviton2 CPUs and Nvidia T4G Tensor Core GPUs, automotive developers can be confident in having close alignment, or environmental parity, between car and cloud.

Canonical launched the Anbox Cloud Appliance in AWS Marketplace to give developers a simple way to prototype, develop and run Android in the cloud. Anbox Cloud now supports Amazon EC2 G5g instances and provides a complete solution that works seamlessly with the Android software stack to virtualize mobile apps, including games, and stream them securely at scale to mobile devices. With Anbox Cloud and G5g instances, customers can stream up to 55 individual sessions at 720p and 30 fps with up to 20% lower cost over comparable x86-based GPU instances.

The challenge with developing software for mobile devices is that physical devices don’t scale, but emulators don’t provide the same performance or accuracy. Corellium creates virtual models of Arm-based devices and runs them on Arm-based servers in the cloud. With Amazon EC2 G5g instances, mobile developers can leverage Corellium software to create Arm-native virtual Android devices that combine the fidelity and performance of a real device with the convenience and scale of the cloud.

Genymobile provides Genymotion, an Android as a service solution at an affordable price. With the release of Amazon EC2 G5g instances, we are able to go a step further by providing developers an Arm-native environment with hardware acceleration, enabling GPU-accelerated rendering and video encoding. Genymotion on G5g is our fastest and most accurate Android image so far. On top of that, our low-resource footprint implementation enables us to run over 60 Virtual Device instances on a single G5g server!

Tier IV is the leading developer of Autoware, the world's first open-source software for autonomous driving. As part of our CI/CD loop, we were previously limited to evaluating the performance of our Yolo4 machine learning model on our in-car ROScube hardware. This has restricted the number of simulations that could be run concurrently. Since G5g instances feature the Arm-based Graviton2 processor and GPUs, we are able to leverage these instances to scale our CI/CD pipeline and run significantly more simulations iterations simultaneously, with unprecedented parity between cloud and embedded systems.

At WePlay, we aim to build a cloud-native, decentralized, and character-identifiable virtual worlds. We are a cloud gaming platform, but not merely a cloud gaming platform. We utilize cloud gaming technology to bring all mobile gamers an unparalleled social experience. The biggest challenge we encountered was the compatibility of Arm-based apk files with today's available x86-based GPU-enabled instances. To translate Arm-based files into x86 and run them on x86 instances is not only more costly but ineffective. With the g5g instances, we can run Android games natively without a translation layer. We reduced our cost by about 30% compared to the g4dn.