One way to build your path to migration is to consider implementing a proof of
concept (POC) pilot. It's relatively easy to implement, and it's an opportunity to
benchmark against your current setup. You can contact your AWS account manager
for support in running a successful POC. If you don't have an AWS account manager,
you can reach out to the AWS Game Tech team.
Remember that you don't have to migrate all your
game workloads at once. It's important to have a vision
of what you're trying to achieve, but you can get there
by taking small steps.
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BUILD AN ANALYTICS PIPELINE:
Make sure you have the right data at the right time—so you can
answer questions about how your game is performing and what
changes are necessary to keep players engaged. With Amazon Kinesis,
you can collect, process, and analyze data in real time and use it to
make informed decisions.
ENLIVEN NON-PLAYABLE CHARACTERS:
Immerse players in your game with lifelike speech for non-playable
characters. Amazon Polly is an API-driven service that converts text
into speech. It offers 62 concatenative and 14 Neural Text-to-Speech
(NTTS) lifelike voices across 29 languages.⁶
REDUCE LATENCY WITH A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK:
Deliver a low-latency game experience by deploying to Regions
closer to your players around the world. When launching a game, a
content delivery network (CDN) like Amazon CloudFront is essential
to cache your static, binary content, including game downloads, mods,
promotional content, and patches.
The following are suggestions for a POC pilot:
⁶These numbers are accurate as of August 4, 2020. See current list of voices and languages in the
Amazon Polly documentation.
