You only need to look at how well PUBG has handled the load of quickly becoming one of the most popular games to see the benefits of AWS. Yeah, their server so

You only need to look at how well PUBG has handled the load of quickly becoming one of the most popular games to see the benefits of AWS. Yeah, their server software itself sucks a bit (low tick-rate, odd "de-sync"), but scaling itself has not been any issue: it feels the same now as it did with a tenth or a hundredth of the players it has right now. Compare that to the growing pains that, for example, league of legends had, where even several years in the whole of EUW would be practically down on weekends. (log in "queue" over 9000)