Supporting a global audience
of millions of online players
with request rates that easily
reach millions per second
means you need the ability
to accommodate significant
spikes in traffic.
We hope this guide gives you the information you need
to become more knowledgeable about different types of
purpose-built data storage for games that AWS has to
offer—plus how to optimize performance to give your
players the best experience possible. We even threw in
a few architectural diagrams to help you get started.
Quick jump
1.0
Relational vs. NoSQL databases
MySQL...................................................................................4
Amazon Aurora...................................................................6
Redis......................................................................................7
MongoDB .............................................................................8
Amazon DynamoDB...........................................................9
Other NoSQL options......................................................12
Caching...............................................................................13
2.0
Binary game content with Amazon S3
Content delivery and Amazon CloudFront.................17
Uploading content to Amazon S3................................18
Amazon S3 performance considerations....................22
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