"Amazon Web Services offers a comprehensive suite of products and services for video game developers across every major platform: mobile, console, PC and online. From AAA console and PC games, to educational and serious games, AWS provides the back end servers and hosting services for your game studio. Build, deploy, distribute, analyze and monetize with AWS. Pay as you go, and only pay for what you use. Focus on your game, not your infrastructure. Join this session to learn more about how games studios and operators use the AWS cloud to support their titles. We will also dive deep into the recently announced Amazon Lumberyard and Gamelift services and explore the technical features of these services and the resources available to help game developers get started building their next creations with on AWS."

1. Gaming in the Cloud
Ian Massingham
Chief Evangelist (EMEA), AWS
@IanMmmm Frizon

2. AWS Gaming Customers

3. 2 31 4
Mobile Long-TailFree to Play In-App Purchases
6 75 8
Cross-Platform User Retention =
Revenue
Global Reach New, Enlarged
Audience
Trends In Gaming

4. • Social Login
• Friends
• Leaderboards
• Push Messages
• Content Updates
• Analytics
Essential Online Features

5. Traditional: Rigid AWS: Elastic
Servers
Demand
Capacity
Excess Capacity
Wasted $$
Demand
Unmet Demand
Upset Players
Missed Revenue
One Other Essential Feature: Scaling

7. AWS SDK for .NET on Unity
➡ Supported Services
➡ Amazon Cognito, Amazon DynamoDB, AWS IAM
➡ Amazon Kinesis Streams, AWS Lambda, Amazon Mobile Analytics
➡ Amazon Simple Email Service, Amazon Simple Notification Service
➡ Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service
➡ Supports Unity versions > 4.6
➡ Currently supported on Android, iOS & on Standalone platforms.
https://github.com/aws/aws-sdk-net/blob/master/Unity.README.md

8. AWS SDK for C++ (Developer Preview)
➡ Complete, up-to-date AWS service coverage
➡ Improved CMake support
➡ Multi-threading stability improvements to Curl interface on Unix and Linux
➡ Visual Studio 2015 support
➡ OSX El Capitan support
➡ Online API documentation
https://aws.amazon.com/sdk-for-cpp/

10. aws.amazon.com/lumberyard

11. ➡ IDE that allows live Visual Editing
➡ Provides “Gems” for modular development
➡ Designers for 2D & UI interfaces
➡ Entity & Component framework
➡ Visual scripting via Flow Graph
Amazon Lumberyard - Editor

12. Complex outdoor environments with lighting

13. High definition rendering in real-time for characters

14. Meet “Rin” – Rendered real-time in Lumberyard

15. Amazon GameLift

16. aws.amazon.com/gamelift

17. Amazon
GameLift
Build Catalog
UPLOAD
BINARY
Game
Version A
2
3
Version A
Instance 1
Version A
Instance 2
FLEET A
FLEET B
Version B
Instance 1
Version B
Instance 2
1
Amazon GameLift – Deploy Fleets

18. Amazon GameLift – Deploy Builds

19. Amazon GameLift – Real-time Insights

20. Amazon Lumberyard - Cloud Canvas

21. ➡ Tools integrated into Lumberyard to
directly access AWS resources
➡ Storage, Database, Compute,
Identity, Queuing, Notification
➡ Integrated into the FlowGraph of the
IDE for easy visual scripting
➡ Lumberyard handles all backend
communication with AWS
Cloud Canvas

22. ➡ AWS Primitives for Cloud Canvas
➡ DynamoDB, S3, SNS,
Cognito, SQS, Lambda
➡ Callable from Script or FlowGraph
➡ Integrated with AWS C++ SDK to
create your own additional
interaction nodes
Amazon
DynamoDB
Amazon
S3
Amazon
Lambda
Amazon
Cognito
Amazon
SNS
Amazon
SQS
Cloud Canvas

23. Twitch – Build your fanbase!

24. Twitch - Create a Fan Base!
• Leading Social Video Platform
for Gamers
• Helps to build strong
communities for your game
• Leverage entertaining players to
spread adoption
• Is this game worth getting?
• How do I get better at this game?
100M unique viewers / month
106 minutes / person / day
2M peak concurrent viewers

25. Design for Viewer Interaction
Broadcaster
AudienceGame
2
31

26. Twitch Integration
Twitch ChatPlay
Allows viewers to type chat
commands to influence game
Twitch JoinIn
Broadcasters can invite viewers
into their game

27. aws.amazon.com/gamedev/

28. aws.amazon.com/blogs/gamedev/
Substance Integration

30. ianmas@amazon.com