Build game development pipelines for distributed teams working anywhere in the world.
Cloud Game Development Learning Plan
Did you know we offer 5 learning plans for AWS for Games? Visit our AWS for Games training center for free, public training for Cloud Game Development, Game Servers, Game Analytics, AI & Machine Learning, and Database solutions.
Enable your teams and accelerate your development
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Create virtual workstations for artists and designers, and build storage workloads comprised of petabytes of data for both hybrid and full cloud pipelines.
Build a fast and scalable version control system, store assets in a central location, accessible by developers working remotely.
Benefit from faster game builds and convenient, distributed testing, without needing to procure, configure, operate, maintain, and upgrade fleets of physical computers.
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TeamCity Cloud is a SaaS version of the powerful and intelligent CI/CD platform by JetBrains.
Nasuni Cloud File Services leverages Amazon S3 to consolidate NAS, distributed file server, backup, archiving, DR, and multi-site file synchronization capabilities in one scalable platform that spans the data center and the cloud.
A purpose-built cloud platform for interactive creators and teams using game engines.
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Customer stories
Read what our customers are saying about why they run their remote game production on AWS.
How Epic Games develops Fortnite faster with a build farm on AWS
By migrating its internal build farm from on-premises to AWS services, including Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3, Epic drastically improved development iteration times and its rapid release cycle to continually deliver fresh content to players.
Gearbox Entertainment goes remote with AWS and Perforce
Gearbox turned to AWS and AWS Partner Perforce to help keep its business running effectively with employees working from home by moving game production to the cloud.
How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS
Sony Interactive Entertainment is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS.
Taking Apocalypse Studios to the Cloud via AWS
Apocalypse Studios uses AWS to transfer large game assets between colleagues, allowing its team to work effectively from home.
Star Stable Reduces Build Times by 50% Using Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
Star Stable Entertainment implemented EC2 Mac Instances and reduced build times, using on-demand scaling to adjust the power of its build environment as needed to deploy changes faster.
Case Studies and Use Cases
It's dangerous to go alone...take this. Learn from the experience of others who have taken this journey and want to see our industry become stronger and more secure while delivering the best experiences for our customers.
Don't let your version control server be a bottleneck, improve data transfer performance by hosting on AWS.
Studios are realizing that they can reduce the delays waiting for file synchronization and increase productivity by migrating their version control to AWS. With more and more studios having a distributed workforce they need reliable working solutions that provide the agility and scale required to ensure secure access to the development pipeline from anywhere their developers are located. Version control solutions that reduce the cost of provisioning and maintaining hardware, are optimized for performance and have reliable backup systems. Read about how customers use the global network of AWS Regions to ensure team productivity.
Scale, security, and cost savings for creative workstations on AWS
Learn how to take that initial deployment from test to production by introducing scaling automation, security, and cost management techniques.
Unify your iOS mobile app CI/CD pipeline with Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
Run macOS workloads on AWS and benefit from the scale, elasticity and reliability of AWS. With EC2 Mac instances, it’s possible to bootstrap macOS machines in the cloud and use these for building, testing, and deploying iOS applications.
A fast and scalable version control system for remote working
With games growing larger in size and getting more complex, studios not only need their assets stored in a central location they need it to be accessible by developers working remotely. Learn how to you can get started with Perforce on AWS today.
Create, build and accelerate your development on AWS
This example shows you how you can setup a remote workstation, version control and accelerate compute intensive processes on AWS.
Innovate with key industry partners
Discover purpose-built AWS for Games solutions and services from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building solutions on AWS.
Memory and graphics intensive, burstable compute
Through our partnership with AMD, AWS offers additional EC2 instances that add to the broadest and deepest portfolio of instances and enables you to optimize both cost and performance for your workload needs.
Deliver unforgettable game experiences
From jaw-dropping character animation to elaborate 3D worlds and props, scale for your most complex game projects with Maya and 3ds Max on AWS.
Deploying Online Gaming Solutions at Scale
We embrace cloud technologies to reduce the complexity of game servers and enable large cross-player gaming experiences.
Unreal Engine, the world's most advanced real-time 3D creation tool.
Unreal Engine on AWS globally and seamlessly delivers high fidelity, immersive 3D experiences without the need for cumbersome/expensive hardware and workstations to host/render the 3D data.
High-performance remote game development
Industry leading desktop streaming solution that supports existing deployments and can also build new environments.
Accelerate heavy workloads, increase productivity and optimize costs
Incredibuild turbocharges development by allowing you to seamlessly scale up to the cloud and use unlimited development acceleration potential in AWS, to reduce builds, tests, code analysis, CI pipelines, and other task times.
DevOps for Games with a scalable, ecosystem-integrated platform; universal repository, continuous security, CI/CD & customizable software distribution
MetaHuman Creator is a free cloud-based app that empowers anyone to create photorealistic digital humans, complete with hair and clothing, in minutes.
Do what you need to do, from anywhere
Allows teams to run Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) virtual machines and connect easily to them.
Partner Spotlight: Perforce Software
Version control that helps development teams move faster. Perforce Helix Core manages 10s of thousands of users, 10s of millions of daily transactions, 100s of terabytes of data, and 10,000+ concurrent commits.
You design the game, we give you the playing field to win.
Graphic workstations in a cloud-native studio environment. Enable your creators to collaborate remotely while keeping your data fully secure.
Empower your artists, producers and studio managers
Enable your next production project with a simplified and secure studio platform. Rapidly deploy virtual workstations with a few clicks.
Resources
Building a game has different challenges compared to many applications. Find AWS documentation and game-specific samples, reference architectures, and more to help you build your game in the cloud.
Amazon Nimble Studio - Accelerate content creation in the cloud
Amazon Nimble Studio - Set up Perforce Helix Core on Nimble Studio
Amazon Nimble Studio - Set up Incredibuild on Nimble Studio
Creating cost-effective Unity build pipeline
Creating an iOS build pipeline with Jenkins
Creating an iOS Game from Unreal Engine
Creating a fast, automated build pipeline
Deploy a workstation and version control
Build Unity games for iOS
Build a distributed version control system
Building Perforce Helix Core on AWS
Offload game builds to the AWS Cloud
Stream a remote environment with NICE DCV
Get started with cloud game development
Developers would rather be creating fun, innovative games that delight players, versus spending time and effort handling infrastructure. Build a cloud development pipeline that reduces the security risk and accelerates development.
Accelerate content through the pipeline
See how you can set up a virtual workstation, enable remote working, connect to a version control system, accelerate rendering and large code builds all with AWS.
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Create an AWS account and start building games in the cloud today. Already have an AWS account? Great — you'll need your account ID for the next step by logging into the AWS console.
Ready to try something out?
Evaluate a few typical solution areas of a cloud development pipeline. Spin up a remote workstation, deploy a version control system and accelerate compute heavy processes with this sample.
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The AWS for Games Landing Zone is the first stop for game developers looking to solve common challenges when moving to the cloud, from spinning up virtual workstations, offloading build processes or migrating your entire development pipeline to cloud.