Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2022
AWS Game Tech
Join AWS at GDC March 21 – 25 to learn how you can build, run, and grow great games with the help of AWS.
Whether you’re a team of one or one thousand, we’d love to learn more about your game development needs.
Game Developers Conference 2022 (GDC)
Join us at GDC to explore how you can build, run, and grow amazing gaming experiences with AWS.
Learn from AWS experts and leading game studios in our breakout sessions:
AWS Game Tech Keynote
March 23 | 10:30AM – 11:30AM
AWS Game Tech provides the broadest portfolio of cloud services and solutions to help game developers of all sizes build faster, run smarter, and grow fun, innovative games. Join our Game Tech product and solutions teams as they unveil the latest Game Tech services, solutions, and partners to help you build your next great game.
Speakers Chris Lee, GM Amazon Lumberyard, AWS Antony Passemard, GM Amazon Nimble Studio, AWS John Kennedy, Sr. Manager Amazon Lumberyard, AWS Chris Byskal, GM Game Operations, AWS Toufeeq Hussain
Building a game developer community
March 23 | 3:30PM – 4:00PM
Learn how to grow and earn trust with your game community by using AWS machine learning solutions. In this session, see how to engage and retain your player base and moderate in-game content. Find out more on how to empower your community members by using AWS Game Tech solutions and machine learning tools.
Speakers Rahul Naryani, Senior Product Manager, AWS Game Tech, AWS Rohan Dubal, Software Development Manager, AWS Game Tech
Our remote future: Game creation and collaboration with AWS
March 23 | 4:00PM – 4:30PM
Technologies for game creation are converging and evolving faster than ever for game artists, designers, and developers. Game studios are under increasing pressure to keep the project moving while balancing remote work and overall job satisfaction for their teams. Where is it all leading us? Join Antony Passemard, GM Amazon Nimble Studio, to learn how AWS services and solutions are not only pulling core game development technologies together but are also enabling remote teams to maintain productivity with better work-life balance.
Speakers Antony Passemard, GM Amazon Nimble Studio, AWS
Redefining online multiplayer experiences on PlayStation 5
March 24 | 10:00AM – 10:30AM
Using the opportunity of a generational jump from PlayStation 4 to PlayStation 5, Sony Interactive Entertainment reimagined its online multiplayer ecosystem to meet game developer and player needs at a global scale. In this session, Sony Interactive Entertainment shares how it reinvented its legacy architecture and uses AWS to ensure high scalability, availability, and flexibility to meet changing demands for the next generation of play.
Speakers Benedikt Neuenfeldt, Staff Solution Architect—Game Experience, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Scaling Ubisoft Rainbow Six Extraction to millions of players with GameLift
March 24 | 10:30AM – 11:00AM
Managing and preparing for the launch of a AAA live game can be overwhelming at times, especially with a small team. In this session, hear how Ubisoft Montréal launched Rainbow Six Extraction with a dedicated deployment pipeline built with automation and redundancy in mind as well as leveraging the Amazon GameLift multi-Region feature. Hear how they managed to deploy, monitor, and optimize game servers on 18 data centers without any downtime or infrastructure issues.
Speakers Lionel Sellam, Live Operations Manager, Ubisoft Montréal
Build a cloud-based game using AWS
March 25 | 10:00AM – 10:30AM
Studios are increasing their agility, accelerating production, and improving their team's work/life balance across the globe with remote game development for connected games. In this session, learn how to create amazing content from anywhere - all with AWS.
Speakers Aliasgar Dahodwala, Software Development Manager, AWS Game Tech Nick Delos Santos, Sr. Software Engineer, AWS Game Tech
Giving your game the best chance of success with the cloud
March 25 | 10:30AM – 11:00AM
AWS has helped studios of all sizes successfully launch many games, from indie studios to the likes of Ubisoft and Epic. This gives AWS unique insight into what behaviors and actions give studios the best chance of their game being a success. In this session, Tristan Greaves, Game Tech Solutions Architecture Leader, dives into the lessons learned from his team supporting customers in launching and running their games on the cloud. What sets you up for success? What could put your launch at risk? And once your game is out there, how can you keep up the momentum?
Speakers Tristan Greaves, Solutions Architecture Leader, AWS
Day 2
3/16/22 – 9:30 AM | AWS
Keystone Technologies: Ambulatory EMR hosting with AWS
3/16/22 – 10:00 AM | Keystone Technologies
Enterprise imaging without walls
3/16/22 – 10:30 AM | GE Healthcare
3/16/22 – 11:00 AM | NextGate
Defending healthcare from cyber attacks with Cynerio and AWS
3/16/22 – 11:30 AM | Cynerio
Modernize your ED workflow to improve staff engagement and patient experience
3/16/22 – 1:00 PM | Leidos
3/16/22 – 1:30 PM | CyberMDX
3/16/22 – 2:00 PM | AWS
Democratizing data analytics: Empowering clinicians to improve care
3/16/22 – 2:30 PM | AdaptX
3/16/22 – 3:00 PM | AWS
Digital front door
3/16/22 – 3:30 PM | Orion Health
3/16/22 – 4:00 PM
3/16/22 – 4:30 PM
3/16/22 – 5:00 PM AWS
3/16/22 – 5:30 PM
FEATURED DEMOS
Deliver fast, personal service with every contact
Contact center, communications, and collaboration
What is Amazon Connect?
Amazon Chime SDK overview
Amazon WorkSpaces animated explainer
Introducing Amazon Pinpoint journeys: Build the experiences your customers want
Add intelligence to your contact center with machine learning
AWS GAME TECH SOLUTIONS AND PROGRAMS
Bring virtually any game to life with AWS Game Tech
AWS has 200+ fully featured services, with more functionality than any other cloud provider. These solutions, together with our AWS Partners and programs, can help you succeed.
FEATURED SOLUTIONS
AWS Game Tech offers a variety of solutions to build faster, run smarter, and grow your games
Game servers and networking
Run games in the cloud at scale with secure, resizable compute capacity, while using the AWS global network to provide virtually uninterrupted player experiences.
Game production in the cloud
As game developers face challenges working from home, you need the tools to build games from anywhere in the world.
Analytics
Understand, grow, and retain your player base by making better design decisions with game analytics and big data solutions.
AI and ML
From detecting fraud and predicting player behavior to automating speech recognition and playtesting, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) make games smarter and development faster.
RESOURCES
Explore more about AWS Game Tech solutions
PARTNERS AND PROGRAMS
Let AWS Partners and programs help you accelerate your game development journey and succeed faster.
Partners
AWS Partner solutions accelerate your journey to the cloud and offer services and support that let you focus on making great games instead of hardware, infrastructure, security, or analytics systems.
AWS CUSTOMER STORIES
Trusted by 90%+ of the world's biggest public game companies
Find out why games customers choose AWS
Epic Games
Learn how Epic Games is leveraging AWS services such as Amazon EC2 to scale capacity for Fortnite just in time.
Ubisoft
Learn how Ubisoft is preparing to launch its upcoming competitive sports game, Roller Champions, using a serverless, containerized architecture built on AWS.
WB Games
WB Games uses AWS to capture, ingest, analyze, and action insights to help developers become more agile with their storytelling.