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Epic Games on AWS

Epic Games (Epic) is the interactive entertainment company behind Fortnite, one of the world's most popular video games with over 400 million players. Founded in 1991, Epic transformed gaming with the release of Unreal Engine—the 3D creation engine powering hundreds of games now used across industries, such as automotive, film and television, and simulation. Epic went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business. On AWS, Epic has reduced the physical and time-consuming barriers to creating cutting-edge entertainment, compelling visualizations, and immersive virtual worlds.

  • Continuous Innovation
  • 2023

    Improving User Experience at Epic Games Using Amazon Timestream

    Learn how Epic Games uses Amazon Timestream to derive business insights in near-real time to improve player and developer experiences. Hear how Epic used Timestream to build a scalable solution for monitoring and deriving insights from the play time of millions of gamers across their catalog of games

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    2023

    Scheduling Epic Games’ Unreal Engine Pipelines with AWS Thinkbox Deadline

    In collaboration with Epic, AWS Thinkbox is excited to announce a new set of plugins, covering a variety of functionality. The new plugins allow for generic project tasks, such as rendering, to be submitted to Deadline directly from within Unreal Engine.

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    2022

    Epic Games Enables Creators to Build Over 2 Million Digital Humans and Launches RealityScan App on AWS

    Epic uses GPU-based compute, data, and content delivery solutions on AWS to scale to millions of users cost efficiently. It processes petabytes of data in near real time to enable rapid development of digital humans, 3D models of real-world objects, and simulations of immersive worlds that empower the next generation of creators.

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    2022

    Epic Games Launches RealityScan App on AWS and Announces 2M MetaHumans Milestone

    RealityScan, a 3D scanning app for mobile devices that turns photos into high-fidelity 3D models, is now available as a free download on iOS. Using the highly performant infrastructure of AWS helps Epic to cost-efficiently scale RealityScan to support tens of thousands of creators—turning images into digital models of real-world objects that can be used in simulations, architecture, automotive, and film/TV projects.

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    2021

    Virtual Production ft. Epic Games

    In this keynote presentation at SIGGRAPH 2021, David Morin, industry manager at Epic Games, discusses the acceleration of modern virtual production in the cloud.

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  • Business Transformation
  • 2021

    Epic Games Delivers Entertainment Experiences at Global Scale on AWS

    Building on AWS services such as Amazon EC2, Epic delivers cutting-edge virtual entertainment experiences that connect millions of concurrent players all over the world. In this video, learn how Epic automatically scales compute capacity to meet constant fluctuations in player demand, supporting up to 30 times load during peak times while reducing operational costs using Savings Plans.

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    2021

    Compiling Unreal Engine 4 Dedicated Servers for AWS Graviton EC2 Instances

    To help developers of all shapes and sizes build, run, and grow amazing games, Epic and AWS collaborated to bolster AWS Graviton2 instance support for Unreal Engine. With AWS Graviton2 support, Unreal Engine creators can realize improved price performance of up to 40 percent over comparable current generation x86-based instances. Follow the step-by-step guide in this blog to create a dedicated game server with Unreal Engine and AWS Graviton2 instances.

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    2019

    Epic Games Leverages AWS To Deliver Fortnite to More Than 250 Million Players Worldwide While Driving 100x Growth in Just 12 Months

    In 2012, Epic began a major transformation to become a GaaS developer, launching games that evolve via regular updates. Now, with AWS at the core, Epic has a global infrastructure with the scalability and elasticity to support millions of concurrent players on games like Fortnite and provide unique online experiences—such as hosting the largest concert in history.

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    2018

    Epic Games Uses AWS to Deliver Fortnite to 200 Million Players

    In this presentation from re:Invent 2018, Chris Dyl, director of platform at Epic, shares how going all in on AWS has supported the company’s shift to a games as a service (GaaS) model. Epic leverages at least 32 different AWS services for the scalability, elasticity, and global reach required to support popular titles, such as Fortnite, which grew by more than 100 times in just 12 months and sees peak usage more than 10 times that of non-peak. To improve business outcomes, Epic’s entire analytics pipeline runs on AWS, delivering insights on service health, massive player tournaments, basic user data, and game design.

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  • Born in the AWS Cloud
  • 2023

    Epic Games Taps AWS Local Zones for Fortnite’s NA-Central Servers

    Epic Games uses AWS Local Zones to support its new NA-Central server region in Fortnite. This new server region brings low latency gameplay to more players in the central United States and Mexico.

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    2018

    Epic Games Goes All-In on AWS

    In 2018, Epic announced it was going all-in on AWS. This press release offers more details on why Epic made AWS its choice in infrastructure for its worldwide game server fleet, backend platform systems, databases, and websites. An AWS customer since 2012, Epic has consistently expanded its use of services, including AWS analytics, machine learning, and containerized solutions to continually improve gameplay.

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  • Inclusion
  • 2024

    AWS for Games Sponsors Epic Games’ Women Creators Program

    AWS teamed up with Epic to support its ‘Women Creators Program’ (WCP), an initiative to train women to create in Unreal Editor For Fortnite (UEFN) and provide mentorship as they pursue careers in games.

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  • Outside AWS
  • 2024

    EPAM and AWS: How the Partners Helped Epic Games Revolutionize User Experience for 350+ Million Gamers

    Leveraging AWS, EPAM helped Epic Games build a platform with impressive scalability and reliability that can sustain Fortnite’s incredible 100x growth and ensure the company’s—and its customers’—security.

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    2023

    From Data Center to the Cloud: Epic Games’ Strategic Shift to AWS

    This case study explores the reasons behind Epic Games’ move from traditional data centers to AWS, the benefits reaped, and the lessons that can be gleaned from the transition.

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    2023

    Epic Games to Expand Use of AWS Local Zones for Fortnite’s US Servers

    Epic is using AWS Local Zones (AWS LZs) to support its North and Central American server region (NA-Central) in Fortnite.

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    2021

    Changing the Game

    The clip of innovation for a game with Fortnite’s size, scale, and reach is no small feat. When Epic learned of the AWS Graviton2 processor, it saw an opportunity to change the approach to its central challenge: continual innovation. While Graviton2 has been woven into Fortnite’s game servers and voice chat capabilities, its most profound impact has been as the driver of scalability and continual innovation for Fortnite’s Creative mode.

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  • What's Next
  • 2021

    How Epic Games Develops Fortnite Faster with a Build Farm on AWS

    In this session from re:Invent 2021, Alex Carberry, infrastructure architect at Epic , shares how the company migrated its internal build farm from on premises to AWS. Using Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, and other AWS solutions, Epic drastically improved development iteration times and its rapid release cycle to continually deliver fresh content to Fortnite players around the world.

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About Epic Games

Epic is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates one of the world’s largest games, Fortnite, which is a vibrant ecosystem of social entertainment experiences including first-party games like Fortnite Battle Royale, LEGO® Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, as well as creator-made experiences.

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