AWS Innovator: Epic Games | Case Studies, Videos and Customer Stories

Epic Games (Epic) went all in on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in 2018 to deliver the storage, analytics, and scaling capabilities critical to its business, which had exploded with the release of Fortnite—an online game that’s seen over 15.3 million concurrent players during live events. Fortnite runs almost entirely on AWS, including its worldwide game-server fleet, backend services, and websites. Epic stores petabytes of data in an AWS data lake, then uses AWS analytics services to assess player sentiment and inform the development of unique experiences. Using tens of thousands of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances powered by AWS Graviton processors, Epic scales compute capacity at optimal price performance to support millions of global gamers every day, accelerate rendering workloads, and provide remote build pipelines for both its own and licensee Unreal Engine creators. On AWS, Epic has reduced the physical and time-consuming barriers to creating cutting-edge entertainment, compelling visualizations, and immersive virtual worlds.