Scale and deliver game streaming experiences with Amazon GameLift Streams

Since 2016, game developers have been using Amazon GameLift to power games with dedicated, scalable server hosting capable of supporting 100M concurrent users (CCU) in a single game. Responding to customer requests for additional managed compute capabilities beyond game servers, we’re announcing Amazon GameLift Streams — a new capability in Amazon GameLift to help game publishers build and deliver global, direct-to-player game streaming experiences. As part of this announcement, existing capabilities in Amazon GameLift are now known as Amazon Gamelift Servers, continuing to serve hundreds of developers including industry leaders Ubisoft, Zynga, WB Games, and Meta.

Amazon GameLift Streams helps you deliver game streaming experiences at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second across devices including iOS, Android, and PCs. In just a few clicks, you can deploy games built with a variety of 3D engines, without modifications, onto fully-managed cloud-based GPU instances and stream games through the AWS Network Backbone directly to any device with a web browser.

Amazon GameLift Streams helps you distribute your games direct-to-players, without having to invest millions of dollars in infrastructure and software development to build your own service. Players can start gaming in just a few seconds, without waiting for downloads or installs.

Here’s a quick look at Amazon GameLift Streams:

You can use the Amazon GameLift Streams SDK to integrate with your existing identity services, storefronts, game launchers, websites, or newly created experiences such as playable demos, and begin streaming to players. You can monitor active streams and usage from within the AWS console, and seamlessly scale your streaming infrastructure across multiple regions on the AWS global network to reach more players around the world with low-latency gameplay. Amazon GameLift Streams is the only solution that enables you to upload your game content onto fully-managed GPU instances in the cloud and start streaming in minutes, with little or no modification of your code.

Players can access AAA, AA, and indie games on PCs, phones, tablets, smart TVs, or any device with a WebRTC-enabled browser. Amazon GameLift Streams allows you to dynamically scale streaming capacity to match player demand, ensuring you only pay for what you need. You can choose from a selection of GPU instances that offer a range of price performance, and rely on the built-in security of AWS to protect your intellectual property.

Let’s get started
To begin using Amazon GameLift Streams, I need an existing Amazon GameLift Streams implementation. I prepare my game files by following the Amazon GameLift Streams documentation.

Then, I’ll upload my files to Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). I can use the AWS Management Console or this AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) command to upload my game files:

aws s3 sync my-game-folder s3://my-bucket/my-game-path

The next step is to create an Amazon GameLift Streams application. I navigate to the Amazon GameLift Streams console. This is how the new AWS GameLift Streams console looks:

On the Amazon GameLift Streams console, I choose Create application.

In the Runtime settings, I select the runtime environment for my game application.

Then, I need to select my S3 bucket and folder from the previous step, then set the path to my game’s main executable.

I also have the option to configure the automatic transfer of application-generated log files into a S3 bucket. After I’m done with this configuration, I choose Create application.

After my application setup is completed, I need to create a stream group, a collection of compute resources to run and stream the application. I navigate to Stream groups in the left navigation pane of the Amazon GameLift Streams console.

On this page, I define a description for my new stream group.

Here, I select the capabilities and pricing of my stream group. Since my application is using Microsoft Windows Server 2022 Base, I make sure to select one of the compatible stream classes.

Next, I need to link with the application I created in the previous step.

On the Configure stream settings page, I can configure additional locations for my stream group, bringing in additional capacity from other AWS Regions. There are two capacity options that I can choose, always-on capacity and on-demand capacity. The default capacity setting provides one streaming slot, which is sufficient for initial testing.

Then, I need to review my configuration and choose Create stream group.

With stream groups configured, I can test my game streaming. I navigate to the Test stream page on the console to launch my application as a stream. I select this stream group and select Choose.

On the next page, I can configure any command line arguments or environment variables to run my application. I don’t need any extra configurations and choose Test stream.

Then, I can see that my application is running as expected. I can also interact with my game. This test helps me verify that my game works properly in streaming mode and serves as an initial proof of concept.

After I’ve confirmed everything works, I can integrate the Web SDK into my own website. The Web SDK and AWS Software Development Kit (AWS SDK) with Amazon GameLift Streams APIs help me to embed game streams, similar to what I tested in the console, into any web page I manage.

Additional things to know

• Availability – Amazon GameLift Streams is currently available in the following AWS Regions: US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Asia Pacific (Tokyo), Europe (Frankfurt). Additional streaming capacity can also be configured in US East (N. Virginia) and Europe (Ireland).
• Supported operating systems – Amazon GameLift Streams supports games running on Windows, Linux, or Proton, offering easy onboarding and compatibility with game binaries. Learn more on Choosing a configuration in Amazon GameLift Streams documentation page.
• Programmatic access – This new capability provides comprehensive tools including service APIs, client streaming SDKs, and AWS CLI for content packaging.

Now available
Explore how to streamline your game distribution using Amazon GameLift Streams. Learn more about getting started on the Amazon GameLift Streams page.

Happy streaming!

— Donnie

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New year, new Heroes – March 2025

As we dive into 2025, we’re thrilled to announce our latest group of AWS Heroes! These exceptional individuals have demonstrated outstanding expertise and innovation, and are committed to sharing knowledge. Their contributions to the AWS community are greatly appreciated, and today we’re excited to celebrate them.

Ahmed Bebars – New Jersey, USA

Container Hero Ahmed Bebars is a Principal Engineer at The New York Times, where he leads the design and delivery of scalable developer platforms that enhance productivity and empower engineering teams. With deep expertise in containers, Kubernetes, and cloud-native technologies, Ahmed builds robust infrastructure solutions that streamline development workflows and support innovation. As an active member of the AWS and Cloud Native communities, he frequently shares his expertise at events like KubeCon, AWS re:Invent, AWS Community Days, and Kubernetes Community Days. Through his initiative, “Level Up with Ahmed,” he shares practical insights and resources to help engineers grow their skills and stay ahead in the evolving tech landscape.

Badri Narayanan Kesavan – Singapore

Community Hero Badri Narayanan Kesavan is an Engineering Lead and Solutions Architect with over a decade of professional experience, specializing in AWS Cloud solutions, platform engineering, and DevOps automation. Badri’s passion lies in learning and sharing with the community. He has delivered several talks at AWS Singapore Summit, AWS Summit ASEAN 2023, AWS Community Days, and various user group meetups. As an active AWS community leader, he organizes meetups and workshops under the AWS Singapore User Group where he regularly conducts sessions on diverse AWS topics, engaging a wide audience to foster innovation and collaboration. He has also authored the book “Mastering Amazon EC2)” which is a comprehensive guide to building robust and resilient applications on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Marcelo Paiva – Goiânia, Brazil

Community Hero Marcelo Paiva has over 30 years of experience in technology and is the CTO at Softprime Soluções, leading product development and research in digital biometrics, facial recognition, and artificial intelligence (AI). With more than a decade working with cloud computing, he specializes in building scalable and innovative solutions using AWS. Passionate about tech communities, Marcelo founded the AWS User Group in Goiânia in 2018, helping grow the local community. Today, he organizes events such as JoinCommunity and Cloud Summit Cerrado, fostering learning and networking in the Cerrado region.

Raphael Jambalos – Quezon City, Philippines

Community Hero Raphael Jambalos manages the Cloud Native development team at eCloudValley Philippines. His team has implemented dozens of cloud-native applications across multiple industries for customers in the Philippines. He is active in helping the AWS User Groups grow in the Philippines, and is passionate about connecting with the community beyond Manila. In his free time, he loves to read books and write about cloud technologies on his Dev.to blog.

Stav Ochakovski – Tel Aviv, Israel

Container Hero Stav Ochakovski is a DevOps Engineer at Beacon and a cybersecurity expert, managing highly scalable multi-cloud environments. With a background in DevOps engineering and instruction, Stav seamlessly transitioned into the dynamic cybersecurity start-up scene. A champion of container technologies and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS), she brings deep expertise in Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines, and logging solutions to the AWS community. Stav actively shares her expertise by speaking at AWS community events, as well as security and container conferences. She is also a leader of the Israel AWS User Group and is a pastry-chef school graduate and licensed skipper.

Learn More

Visit the AWS Heroes website if you’d like to learn more about the AWS Heroes program, or to connect with a Hero near you.

— Taylor

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AWS Weekly Roundup: Anthropic Claude 3.7, JAWS Days, Cross-account access, and more (March 3, 2025)

I have fond memories of the time I built an application live at the AWS GenAI Loft London last September. AWS GenAI Lofts are back in locations such as San Francisco, Berlin, and more, to continue providing collaborative spaces and immersive experiences for startups and developers. Find a loft near you for hands-on access to AI products and services events, workshops, and networking opportunities, that you can’t miss!

Last week’s launches
Here are some launches that got my attention during the previous week.

Four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS — For some situations, you may want to enable centralized operations across multiple AWS accounts or share resources across teams, or projects within your teams. In these cases, you may be concerned about security, availability, or the manageability of granting this cross-account access. We’ve announced four ways to grant cross-account access in AWS and detail each of the methods and its unique trade-offs.

Amazon ECS adds support for additional IAM condition keys — We’ve launched eight new service-specific condition keys for Identity and Access Management (IAM). These new condition keys let you create IAM policies as well as Service Control Policies (SCPs) to better enforce your organizational policies in containerized environments. IAM condition keys allow you to author policies that enforce access control based on API request context.

AWS Chatbot is now named Amazon Q Developer — AWS Chatbot has been renamed to Amazon Q Developer, representing an enhancement to developer productivity through generative AI-powered capabilities. Furthermore, this update is an enhancement of our chat-based DevOps capabilities. By combining AWS Chatbot’s proven functionality with the generative AI capabilities of Amazon Q, we’re providing developers with more intuitive, efficient tools for cloud resource management.

Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning model is now available in Amazon Bedrock — We’re expanding the foundation models (FM) offerings of Amazon Bedrock and we’ve announced the availability of Anthropic’s Claude 3.7 Sonnet foundation model in Amazon Bedrock. Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Anthropic’s most intelligent model to-date. It stands out as their first hybrid reasoning model capable of producing quick responses or extended thinking, meaning it can work through difficult problems using careful, step-by-step reasoning.

Other AWS News
JAWS UG (Japan AWS Usergroup) is the largest AWS user group in the world, and holds JAWS Days every year with over a thousand participants from Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. The March 1st event started with a keynote speech on next-generation development by Jeff Barr (VP of AWS Evangelism), and included over 100 technical and community experience sessions, lightning talks, and workshops such as Game Days, Builders Card Challenges, and networking parties. If you want to experience the most active AWS community event in the world, I recommend attending next year.

Amazon Q Developer now generally available in Amazon SageMaker Canvas — Announced as available in preview at AWS reinvent 2024, we’ve now announced the general availability of Amazon Q Developer in Amazon SageMaker Canvas to help you build machine learning (ML) models using natural language.

Applications for the 2025 AWS Cloud Club Captains Program are still open through March 6th. AWS Cloud Clubs are student-led groups for post-secondary and independent students, 18 years old and over. Find a club near you on the Meetup page.

From community.aws
Here are some of my favorite posts from community.aws:

DevSecOps on AWS: Secure, Automate, and Have a Laugh Along the Way – Discover how DevSecOps on AWS transforms your development pipeline by integrating security from the very first commit to production deployment, by Ahmed Mohamed.

Find out how to earn 100 percent free AWS certification vouchers in this post published, by Anand Joshi.

In the post, Boost SaaS Onboarding & Retention with AWS AI & Automation, Kaumudi Tiwari details how to navigate endless forms, generic guides, and a cluttered interface when signing up for a new SaaS platform.

My colleague Dennis Traub has published helpful step-by-step guides on how to use reasoning capabilities with Claude 3.7 Sonnet in your C#/.NET, Java, JavaScript, or Python applications. Find these posts and much more generative AI-related content in the Gen AI Space on community.aws.

Upcoming AWS events
Check your calendars and sign up for these upcoming AWS events:

AWS Community Days – Join community-led conferences that feature technical discussions, workshops, and hands-on labs led by expert AWS users and industry leaders from around the world: Milan, Italy (April 2), Bay Area – Security Edition (April 4), Timișoara, Romania (April 10), and Prague, Czeh Republic (April 29).

AWS Innovate: Generative AI + Data – Join a free online conference focusing on generative AI and data innovations. Available in multiple geographic regions: APJC and EMEA (March 6), North America (March 13), Greater China Region (March 14), and Latin America (April 8).

AWS Summits – Join free online and in-person events that bring the cloud computing community together to connect, collaborate, and learn about AWS. Register in your nearest city: Paris (April 9), Amsterdam (April 16), London (April 30), and Poland (May 5).

AWS re:Inforce – AWS re:Inforce (June 16–18) in Philadelphia, PA is our annual learning event devoted to all things AWS cloud security. Registration opens in March–be ready to join more than 5,000 security builders and leaders.

AWS DevDays are free, technical events where developers will learn about some of the hottest topics in cloud computing. DevDays offer hands-on workshops, technical sessions, live demos, and networking with AWS technical experts and your peers. Register to access AWS DevDays sessions on-demand.

Create your AWS Builder ID and reserve your alias. Builder ID is a universal login credential that gives you access–beyond the AWS Management Console–to AWS tools and resources, including over 600 free training courses, community features, and developer tools such as Amazon Q Developer.

AWS Training and Certification hosts free training events, both online and in-person that helps you get the most out of the AWS Cloud. Register to gain foundational cloud knowledge or dive deep in a technical area. Join AWS experts for training events that meet your goals, such as AWS Discovery Days, in-person. and virtual events at AWS Skills Centers including the one in Cape Town.

You can browse all upcoming in-person and virtual events here.

That’s all for this week. Check back next Monday for another Weekly Roundup!

– Veliswa

This post is part of our Weekly Roundup series. Check back each week for a quick roundup of interesting news and announcements from AWS!

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