Services for Game Developers

Amazon provides game developers a wide range of tools and services to help you build, distribute, scale, optimize and monetize your games. We design these services to help you move more quickly, reach new customers, and sell more content.

 

Customer Successes

Saved 90% and improved flexibility.

Achieved 43% higher ARPU with Amazon In-App Purchasing.

Scaled Restaurant City to handle 4 million users 8 weeks after launch.

Scaled to handle 10 million daily active users and launched new games faster.

Scaled their 3D MMO game to handle 650,000 users.

 

Helping You Build, Distribute, Scale, Optimize and Monetize

Game servers

Different games need different compute, memory, and networking configurations. AWS's compute service, Amazon EC2, provides Linux and Windows virtual machines with 16 virtual machine options.

Store and access application datasets

AWS offers flexible database options for your game data sets. With AWS's NoSQL database, Amazon DynamoDB, you can access a high performance database that can handle any level of scale. Use Amazon DynamoDB when a single primary key is appropriate (such as a user ID) and for latency sensitive and I/O intensive portions of your game. With Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS), you can access highly reliable managed MySQL, SQL and Oracle DBs. Use Amazon RDS for the portions of your application that are transactional or that require complex relational queries.

Store videos, logs, and binary large objects

With Amazon S3, you can add any amount data and access it from anywhere by simply marking the content as publicly accessible.

Sync, achievements, and leaderboards

Amazon GameCircle for Kindle Fire lets you add in-game achievements and leaderboards to your Kindle Fire games. It also allows you to save game progress to the cloud using Whispersync for Games.

In-app purchasing

Amazon In-App Purchasing makes it easy for you to allow players to use their Amazon accounts to purchase digital content and subscriptions —such as in-game currency, expansion packs, upgrades, virtual items and more— within your PC, Mac, Web, Kindle Fire, and Android games.

Automated game deployment and management

With AWS Elastic Beanstalk, you can easily deploy and manage Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, and .NET games. Simply upload your game, and Elastic Beanstalk automatically handles provisioning, load balancing, auto-scaling, and application health monitoring.

App distribution

Amazon App Distribution enables you to offer your PC, Mac, Web, Kindle Fire and Android games and goods on Amazon. Amazon will create detail pages for your games so they can be discovered and purchased by millions of Amazon shoppers. For Kindle Fire and Android, you can also offer your games in the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program.

Deliver and update games

Amazon CloudFront is a global content delivery network with dozens of locations worldwide, so your games and updates load fast.

Automate scaling

Automate adding more game servers based on rules you set. Our Auto Scaling service will automatically launch new instances, and our Elastic Load Balancing service will distribute incoming application traffic across your Web and app servers.

Run experiments

Amazon A/B Testing lets you experiment within your games and apps distributed through the Amazon Mobile App Distribution Program. With A/B Testing you can easily optimize your games by distributing tests to a portion of players and observing how successful each test is before deciding whether to launch it to everyone.

Development tools

To help you build applications on Amazon Web Services, visit our specific developer centers for Java, PHP, Python, Ruby and .NET.  For Kindle Fire and mobile games, you can find SDKs and game engine plugins in the Mobile App Distribution Portal. For PC, Mac and Web-based games, check out SDKs for Java, PHP, and .Net.

Benefits

Move More Quickly

Reduce development time, iterate more quickly, and get your games to market faster.

Reach New Customers

Listing your games and virtual goods with Amazon allows you to reach millions of customers.

Sell More Content

Reduce friction and increase conversion by allowing customers to sign-in and purchase using their Amazon accounts.

Scale with Ease

Add thousands of virtual machines in minutes.

Scale with Ease

Pay only for cloud resources used or when customers make purchases.

Secure Technology

Use our secure and durable technology and commerce platforms with industry-recognized certifications and audits.

Get Started

Free Tier

New customers can sign up for an AWS account and get access to a free tier of services.

Building with AWS

Whether you are new to AWS or an advanced user, you can find useful information about the services ranging from introductions to advanced features.

Kindle Fire and Android

Distribute your Kindle Fire and Android games by visiting our Mobile App Distribution Portal.

PC, Mac & Web

Contact us to distribute your PC, Mac and Web-based games.

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