How Epic Games and AWS Empower Users to Create the Next Great Gaming Experience | WIRED Brand Lab

[Announcer] Fortnite from Epic Games is a free to play,

always evolving multiplayer game,

where anyone can collaborate to create their own world

or battle to be the last one standing.

But how does Epic support millions of gamers

when a user-generated world goes viral?

[pulsing electronic music]

With each new player in a game of Fortnite,

the processing power required

to seamlessly keep the game running rises

but games can be a tweet away from a surge of users

and an exponential increase in the processing power required

for a high-quality gaming experience.

Adopting AWS Graviton2 based instances

helps Epic scale smoothly to meet

the daunting surge of compute requirements for Fortnite

and achieve significant cost efficiency.

Even as the number of players spikes,

Epic is able to scale seamlessly

so players get an uninterrupted, immersive experience.

With this ability to efficiently scale

virtually any user-created world,

Epic has democratized the game design process

so that anyone can dream up the next great game.