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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 G U I D E TO S C A L A B L E DATA S TO R AG E F O R G A M E S O N AW S 2