Amazon GameLift drops egress bandwidth costs for multiplayer game servers
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Glenn Fiedler
Summary
Game developer Glenn Fiedler discusses how Amazon GameLift Servers now offer free network bandwidth (both inbound and outbound) at no additional charge, which he considers a game-changing development for multiplayer games — especially for his 1000-player space game that requires 10-20 Gbps of egress bandwidth. The article explains how this eliminates a major cost barrier for large-scale multiplayer game hosting on AWS.
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Hacker NewsAmazon GameLift drops egress bandwidth costs for multiplayer game serversmas-bandwidth.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledThe best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?
These days I spend a lot of my time thinking about game server hosting costs, and especially egress bandwidth costs: the cost of bandwidth sent from my server out to players over the public internet.
This is way more than standard low player count games like Apex Legends, Counterstrike, Valorant and Marathon.
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