This means each cluster can easily support thousands of concurrent game sessions. These virtual worlds are hosted as containerized applications running on several global Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) clusters.Īdditionally, Alta VR uses a range of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types, along with Amazon EKS, to support hundreds of nodes. “Because players create virtual worlds where other players can join and interact with them, it was apparent that we needed a very scalable architecture to support that capability,” Schmechel says.Īccommodates Tens of Thousands of New Daily PlayersĪ Township Tale consists of persistent virtual worlds-worlds that continue to exist regardless of whether users are logged in. The business anticipated that there would be a much larger uptake of players on Oculus Quest compared to the PC version of the game, which would result in thousands of new players. “We had great support from AWS, and they connected us with gaming technology experts who shared insights on how to scale multiplayer games,” says Timo Schmechel, principal cloud engineer at Alta VR.Īlta VR knew scalability was of utmost importance once it decided to launch the game on the Oculus Quest platform. It decided on Amazon Web Services (AWS) based on its ability to support a high level of scalability, a growing player base, and future content. When Alta VR was preparing to launch its game for PC, it evaluated several cloud providers to run its gaming application.
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