Amazon cloud launches service for helping game companies with streaming

Attendees walk through an exposition hall at AWS re:Invent, a conference hosted by Amazon Web Services, in Las Vegas on Dec. 3, 2024. Amazon's cloud unit said Thursday that it's launching a service to allow video game publishers to stream their games online. GameLift Streams will deliver games to any device with a browser that supports the WebRTC standard, Amazon said in a blog post. That includes smart TVs, phones, tablets and PCs. One way the service can be used is to rapidly distribute titles in development to testers, and then securely remove access later. "Lots of AAA games are using the service in that regard," Chris Lee, general manager and head of immersive technologies at Amazon Web Services, told CNBC. A handful of companies, such as Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive , invest heavily in top-flight games with high production quality. AWS generates a considerable amount of its revenue from core services such as renting out access to server and storage space, with dat ... Read full article.