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Amazon is a bad fit for this use case. Amazon's value proposition is: "you are making money, pay us a big chunk of it and we will help you scale up with less ef
by mantap 7y ago
Amazon is a bad fit for this use case. Amazon's value proposition is: "you are making money, pay us a big chunk of it and we will help you scale up with less effort and fewer staff.
It doesn't seem surprising to me that making a cloud gaming service would necessitate assembling your own servers. Games just have different hardware requirements to everything else, it's well known that "pro" graphics cards are not meant for gaming.
- aeturnum 7y agoNot Op, but they specifically said the using a colocation (i.e. setting up your own servers) was not helpful in keeping down costs.
- mantap 7y agoI know but I find it hard to believe that Colo provides no benefit. I'm guessing a large part of their AWS bill would be bandwidth since this kind of a pathological use case for AWS (streaming individual video with no possibility to use CDN).