In this session, we go beyond online game servers, to explore other areas where AWS can benefit your game. First, we dive into using AWS to perform load testing of your game. We present architecture patterns, what makes a good load test, and real-world example scenarios. We then highlight emerging trends with cloud rendering, and show how you can integrate Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances into your game workflow. Finally, hear from Playcast, who brought their Cloud Gaming service to new players worldwide, by leveraging the G2 EC2 instance. Playcast share how they architected their streaming service to best leverage the cloud, things they learned, and demo their service streaming games from AWS.

1. November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas
Dhruv Thukral, Solutions Architect –Gaming, Amazon Web Services
Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, PlaycastMedia Systems

5. Public Subnet
Master
Database
Internal Services Servers
Private
Subnet
Load Test
Scripts
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
Generators
Private or
Public Subnet

6. Load Test corporate data center
Scripts
Load
Generators
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Subnet
Direct
Connect
Internet
OR

8. External APIs
Internet
Load Test Scripts
Region 1
Metrics Collection & Graphing
Load Generators
Load Test Scripts
Region 2
Metrics Collection & Graphing
Load Generators
Load Test Scripts
Region 3
Metrics Collection & Graphing
Load Generators
Hammer Time

10. Corporate Data Center
Load Test Deployment
External APIs
Internet
Internet
Direct Connect
Load Test Scripts
region
Metrics Collection & Graphing
Load Generators
region
region
Internet

11. Developers
Developers
Developers
Load Test Deployment
S3 Bucket
Developer Workstation
Small Load Test to Verify Scripts
Upload Finished Test Scenarios to S3
Download Scenarios
Upload Raw Results & Aggregates
Full Scale Load Testing
EMR + RedShift, Graphite or Splunket al.
Configuration Management Server
Pushes Configuration
Code Repository
Load Test Stack
Send Data

12. Developers
Developers
Developers
Load Test Deployment
S3 Bucket
Developer Workstation
Small Load Test to Verify Scripts
Developer Pushes an Updated Script
Restart Test
EMR + RedShift, Graphite or Splunket al.
Configuration Management Server
Pushes Configuration
Code Repository
Load Test Stack
Send Data
SNS Notification
Download Updated Scenarios

13. http://bit.ly/110ig1l

14. November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems

15. Game is running
(and rendered) on a server
Rendered frames are streamed as video in real time to the client
Gamepad commands are sent back to the server

16. Management System
Game is running (and rendered) on a server
Rendered frames are streamed as video in real time to the client
Gamepad commands are sent back to the server
A management system to provision games on servers and store progress

17. 100+
titles
licensed from:
And more…

18. France
Portugal
South Korea

21. G2 Instance (nVIDIAGRID GPU) –running and streaming games
EBS –attached to the G2 instance as games storage
S3 –storing user’s game progress
AMIs and Snapshots –store instance and EBS image
AWS APIs –dynamically create/terminate G2 instances according to load
G2 Instance
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
AMI

22. Management System
Games StreamingServer
G2-based Games Streaming Server
AMI
EBS
G2 Instance
SW Stack
Game Over
S3

23. Game
progress
CPU
GPU
Storage
S3
G2
EBS
Use EBS and achieve local hard-disk performance for Cloud Gaming
Throughput challenge
Achieve CPU & GPU performance on a Virtual Machine
VM Challenge

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29. http://bit.ly/awsevals