Traditional: Rigid AWS: Elastic

Servers

Demand

Capacity

Excess Capacity

Wasted $$

Demand

Unmet Demand

Upset Players

Missed Revenue :(

11 Regions

52 Edge Locations

Continuous Expansion

Multiplayer

Leaderboards

Multi-platform Achievements

Power-ups

In-game purchases

Multi-ballBreak-out mode

ELB

• Choose region

• >=2 Availability Zones

• Amazon EC2 for app

• Elastic Load Balancing

• Amazon RDS database

• Multi-AZ

Region

ELB

• Amazon S3 for game data

• Assets

• UGC

• Analytics

Region

ELB

• Amazon S3 for game data

• Assets

• UGC

• Analytics

• ... with CloudFront!

Region

CloudFront

CDN

• Amazon S3 for game data

• Assets

• UGC

• Analytics

• ... with CloudFront!

• Auto Scaling Group

• Capacity on demand

• Respond to users

• Automatic healing

ELB

Region

CloudFront

CDN

• Amazon S3 for game data

• Assets

• UGC

• Analytics

• ... with CloudFront!

• Auto Scaling Group

• Capacity on demand

• Respond to users

• Automatic healing

• Amazon ElastiCache

• Memcached

• Redis

ELB

Region

CloudFront

CDN

• Games are write heavy

• Caching of limited use

• Key value key value

• Binary structures

• Database = bottleneck

ELB

Region

CloudFront

CDN

(not fun)

• Fully-managed

• NoSQL data store

• Provisioned throughput

• Secondary indexes

• PUT/GET keys

• Document Support!

• 400 KB Items

• Reindexing (Soon!)

• Auto Scaling (OSS)

ELB

Region

CloudFront

CDN

• Hash key = Primary key

• Range key = Sub key

• Range key = Sort key

• Others attributes are

undefined

• So… How to sort based

on Top Score?

UserID

(hash key)

BoardName

(range key)

TopScore TopScoreDate

"101" "Galaxy Invaders" 5842 "2014-09-15T17:24:31"

"101" "Meteor Blasters" 1000 "2014-10-22T23:18:01"

"101" "Starship X" 24 "2014-08-31T13:14:21"

"102" "Alien Adventure" 192 "2014-07-12T11:07:56"

"102" "Galaxy Invaders" 0 "2014-09-18T07:33:42"

"103" "Attack Ships" 3 "2014-10-19T01:13:24"

"103" "Galaxy Invaders" 2317 "2014-09-11T06:53:00"

"103" "Meteor Blasters" 723 "2014-10-19T01:14:24"

"103" "Starship X" 42 "2014-07-11T06:53:03"

• Create a secondary index!

• Set hash key to BoardName

• Set range key to TopScore

• Project extra attributes as needed

• Can now query by BoardName,

Sorted by TopScore

• Handles many common gaming

use case

BoardName

(hash key)

TopScore

(range key)

UserID

"Alien Adventure" 192 "101"

"Attack Ships" 3 "103"

"Galaxy Invaders" 0 "102"

"Galaxy Invaders" 2317 "103"

"Galaxy Invaders" 5842 "101"

"Meteor Blasters" 723 "103"

"Meteor Blasters" 1000 "101"

"Starship X" 24 "101"

"Starship X" 42 "103"

UserID

(hash key)

BoardName

(range key)

TopScore TopScoreDate

"101" "Galaxy Invaders" 5842 "2014-09-15T17:24:31"

• Document types: List, Map

• Document content addressing

"name": "Martin",

"games": ["Megablast","Spacerace"],

"score": {"Megablast" : 123,"Spacerace" : 41

}

"name": {"S": "Martin"

}"games": {

"L": [ { "S": "Megablast" },{ "S": "Spacerace" } ]

},"score": {

"M": {"Megablast": { "N": "123" },"Spacerace": { "N": "41" }

}}

, Boolean, Null

"name": {"S": "Martin"

}"games": {

"L": [ { "S": "Megablast" },{ "S": "Spacerace" } ]

},"score": {

"M": {"Megablast": { "N": "123" },"Spacerace": { "N": "41" }

}}

document.score.Megablast

SOV204 Scaling Up to Your First 10 Million Users

SDD407 Amazon DynamoDB: Data Modeling and Scaling Best Practices

GAM302 EA's Real-World Hurdles with Millions of Players in the

Simpsons: Tapped Out

Region

• API backend app

• Core session

• Matchmaking

• S3+CloudFront

• DLC, assets

• Game saves

• UGC

• Public server tier

• Direct client socket

• Scale on players

① Login via API

② Request matchmaking

③ Get game server IP

Region

① Login via API

② Request matchmaking

③ Get game server IP

④ Connect to server

⑤ Pull down assets

⑥ Other players join

Region

Region ARegion B

GAM402 Deploying a Low-Latency Multiplayer Game Globally: Loadout

GAM404 Gaming DevOps: Scopely's Continuous Deployment Pipeline

GAM405 Create Streaming Game Experiences with Amazon AppStream

Load test environment

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GAM303 Beyond Game Servers: Load Testing, Rendering, and Cloud Gaming

WEB306 UI, Load, and Performance Testing Your Websites on AWS

GAM301 Real-Time Game Analytics with Kinesis, Redshift, and DynamoDB

GAM304 How Riot Games re:Invented their AWS Model

ARC302 Running Lean Architectures: How to Optimize for Cost Efficiency

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