Game dev companies wanting to build faster, work smarter, and create complex gaming experiences are looking to move development workloads to the AWS cloud. Combining AWS Game Tech & Perforce delivers the unique features and the high performance necessary to make this a reality. AWS Game Tech offers near infinite compute, storage, and network resources for every shape and size of studio — whether you are a startup or a publisher with multiple facilities. Helix Core — version control by Perforce — is the game development standard used by 19 of the top AAA 20 game dev studios. So how can you optimize the cloud to maximize these benefits? Join Chuck Gehman from Perforce and Kevin Ashman, Senior Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services to learn how to: -Make major decisions on CPU, networking, and storage. -Recognize the financial levers you can move to succeed in the cloud. -Deploy Helix Core in the cloud (plus AWS tools that make it work better). -Lay the groundwork for scalability and elasticity with Helix Core on AWS. Get our best practices from the real-world experiences of game developers!

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How AAA Studios Build Faster With AWS & Perforce
KEVIN ASHMAN, AWS CHUCK GEHMAN, PERFORCE
Helix Core by Perforce © Perforce Software, Inc.

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Today’s Presenters
Kevin Ashman
Senior Partner Solutions Architect
AWS
Chuck Gehman
Technical Marketing Engineer
Perforce Software

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Why Game Developers Use AWS
The most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud.
Fastest pace of innovation
and fun!
Any workload. Any platform.
Anything.
Scale that would otherwise
break the internet.

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Customers on AWS

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• Architecture for performance and reliability.
• Compute (instance types and OS choices).
• Storage options.
• Where are the costs?
• Deployment options.
• AWS Tools for deployment, backup, performance,
and elasticity.
AWS Game Tech & Helix Core

6. CPU, Storage, and OS Choices

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• EC2 Instances are your Virtual Machines in AWS.
• Explore instance types to determine best fit:
• C5 instances are compute optimized.
• R5 instances are memory optimized.
• NEW C5a instance provides 10% lower cost over
comparable instances, powered by AMD EPYC “Rome”
processors.
• Pricing options include On-Demand, Savings Plans,
and Reserved Instances.
CPUs – What EC2 Instance Types Should I Use?

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• Easy to use.
• Highly available and
durable.
• Performance for any
workload.
• Scalable and secure.
Storage
Amazon Elastic
Block Store
Amazon Elastic
File System
• POSIX-Compliant Shared
File Storage.
• Scalable performance.
• Dynamic elasticity.
• Cost effective.
Amazon Simple
Storage Service (S3)
• Industry leading
scalability, availability, and
durability.
• Cost effective storage.
• Unmatched security.

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YO U R O S O R A M A Z O N ’ S ?
Operating System Choices
• CentOS or Red Hat 6.x
• CentOS or Red Hat 7.x
• Amazon Linux / Linux 2
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic)
• Microsoft Windows Servers 2012, 2016, 2019
• Base, Standard Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows 10

10. Manage Costs

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• How do you estimate your infrastructure costs on AWS?
• AWS Pricing Calculator - https://calculator.aws/
• Build your estimate based on compute,
storage, and data egress usage.
Manage and Compare Costs

12. Deployment Options

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• Is everyone sitting in one facility?
• Is everyone working remote?
• Are there clusters of high traffic usage in certain geographies?
• Code and non-code contributors?
• Do volumes of traffic and transactions remain level, or scale up
and down consistently?
• Seasonality?
• On deadlines?
• Understand Elasticity with Helix Core
• It’s not cloud native, but…
• Plan for HA/DR.
Architect a Flexible Deployment

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• On-Demand resources – EC2 & EBS.
• Remote administration – IAM.
• Secured network resources – VPC.
• Secure connectivity – VPN & Direct Connect.
Cloud Hosted Perforce
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
VPC
Elastic
Block
Store
Elastic
Block
Store
Perforce
Server
(Replica)
Perforce
Server
(Commit)
VPN
Direct
Connect
Performance, Reliability, and Security
AWS Cloud Work From Home

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“No One Has One Server”
Availability Zone 1 Availability Zone 2
VPC
Elastic
Block Store
Elastic
Block Store
Perforce
Server
(Commit)
AWS Cloud
Snapshot
Storage
S3
Database
Checkpoints &
Journals
Archive Files
Checkpoints &
Journals
Archive Files
Perforce
Server
(Replica)
EFS
Storage

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• Regions
• Availability Zones
• Multi-AZ
• AWS Route53 DNS
Geo Routing
Crossing Regions and Availability Zones
HELIX CORE CLIENT
(SEOUL)
HELIX CORE CLIENT
(NEW YORK)
HELIX CORE CLIENT
(SAN FRANCISCO)
ROUTE 53AWS REGION 1
AWS REGION 2
AVAILABILITY ZONE 1
AVAILABILITY ZONE 2
AVAILABILITY ZONE 3
HELIX CORE
COMMIT

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• On-Premise & cloud.
• Direct Connect.
• Working with large
data sets.
• Storage Gateway.
• Use tools to simplify on
premises, cloud, and even
multi-cloud deployments.
Hybrid Deployments
CUSTOMER
HKG
DATA
CENTER
HELIX CORE
COMMIT
VLAN
VLAN
VLAN
AWS
DIRECT
CONNECT
HKG LOCATION
AWS
DX ROUTER
AWS SINGAPORE REGION
EDGE SERVER - VPC 1
EDGE SERVER – VPC 2
PRIVATE VIF 2
PRIVATE VIF 1
PUBLIC ENDPOINTS LIKE S3
PUBLIC VIF

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Disaster Recovery: What Does it Actually Mean?

19. AWS Tools for Deployment, Backup, Performance, and Elasticity

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AWS Services
AWS Storage
Gateway
Amazon Simple
Storage Service
AWS Backup AWS Snowball
Amazon EC2 AWS Outposts
Compute
Amazon Elastic
Block Store
Amazon Elastic
File System
Amazon S3 Glacier
AWS CloudFormation
AWS Organizations AWS Systems Manager
Amazon CloudWatch
Management & Governance
AWS DataSync
Migration & Transfer
AWS Direct Connect AWS Site-to-Site VPN
Amazon VPC Amazon Route 53
Networking & Content Delivery
Storage

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22. Thank You!

23. Q + A