(GAM303) Beyond Game Servers: Load Testing, Rendering, and Cloud Gaming | AWS re:Invent 2014
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November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas Dhruv Thukral, Solutions Architect – Gaming, Amazon Web Services Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems
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In this session, we go beyond online game servers, to explore other areas where AWS can benefit your game. First, we dive into using AWS to perform load testing of your game. We present architecture patterns, what makes a good load test, and real-world example scenarios. We then highlight emerging trends with cloud rendering, and show how you can integrate Amazon EC2 GPU-based instances into your game workflow. Finally, hear from Playcast, who brought their Cloud Gaming service to new players worldwide, by leveraging the G2 EC2 instance. Playcast share how they architected their streaming service to best leverage the cloud, things they learned, and demo their service streaming games from AWS.
Transcript of (GAM303) Beyond Game Servers: Load Testing, Rendering, and Cloud Gaming | AWS re:Invent 2014
November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas
Dhruv Thukral, Solutions Architect – Gaming, Amazon Web Services
Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems
Public Subnet
Master
Database
Internal Services Servers
Private
Subnet
Load Test
Scripts
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
Generators
Private or
Public Subnet
corporate data centerLoad Test
Scripts
Load
Generators
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Subnet
Direct
Connect
Internet
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External
APIs
Internet
Load Test
ScriptsRegion 1
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
GeneratorsLoad Test
ScriptsRegion 2
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
Generators
Load Test
ScriptsRegion 3
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
Generators
Hammer Time
Corporate Data Center
Load Test
Deployment
External
APIs
Internet
Internet
Direct
Connect
Load Test
Scripts
region
Metrics
Collection &
Graphing
Load
Generators
region
region
Internet
Developers
Developers
Developers
Load Test
Deployment
S3
Bucket
Developer
Workstation
Small Load
Test to Verify
Scripts
Upload
Finished Test
Scenarios to
S3
Download
Scenarios
Upload Raw
Results &
Aggregates
Full Scale
Load Testing
EMR +
RedShift,
Graphite or
Splunk et al.
Configuration
Management
Server
Pushes
Configuration
Code
Repository
Load Test Stack
Send Data
Developers
Developers
Developers
Load Test
Deployment
S3
Bucket
Developer
Workstation
Small Load
Test to Verify
Scripts
Developer
Pushes an
Updated Script
Restart Test
EMR +
RedShift,
Graphite or
Splunk et al.
Configuration
Management
Server
Pushes
Configuration
Code
Repository
Load Test Stack
Send Data
SNS
Notification
Download
Updated
Scenarios
November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV
Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems
Game is running
(and rendered)
on a server
Rendered frames are
streamed as video in
real time to the client
Gamepad commands are
sent back to the server
Management
System
Game is running (and
rendered)
on a server
Rendered frames are
streamed as video in
real time to the client
Gamepad commands are
sent back to the serverA management system to provision
games on servers and store progress
100+titleslicensed from:
And more…
France
Portugal
South Korea
G2 Instance (nVIDIA
GRID GPU) – running
and streaming games
EBS – attached to
the G2 instance as
games storage
S3 – storing user’s game progress
AMIs and Snapshots – store
instance and EBS image
AWS APIs – dynamically
create/terminate G2
instances according to load
G2 Instance
Amazon EBS
Amazon S3
AMI
Management System
Games
Streaming
Server
G2-based Games
Streaming ServerAMI
EBSG2
Instance
SW
Stack
Game Over
S3
Gameprogress
CPU
GPU
Storage
S3
G2
EBSUse EBS and achieve
local hard-disk
performance for
Cloud Gaming
Throughput challenge
Achieve
CPU & GPU
performance
on a Virtual
Machine
VM Challenge
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IOPS
Running multiple games on a G2 instance with GP2 EBS
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Playtime 24 Hour Distribution
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