The best thing that's ever happened for multiplayer games?

zuzululu

I expect Amazon to change their pricing once they've established a foothold and makes me a bit wary to adopting it. Their other offerings are simply far too expensive which you will naturally reach out for.

fivetenpen

Its free, until it’s not

iammjm

Would this also mean lower latency between two locations? One interesting case for me would be lowering latency in StarCraft: Brood War, which is cursed by having 90% of its player base in South Korea, with the rest of us foreigners spread all over the world.

frollogaston

"This is because my space game sends a lot of bandwidth. 10-20 megabits per-second per-client" What is this game doing that uses so much bandwidth? Pretty sure most games use something like 2mbps.

Stevvo

There is nothing "democratizing" about hosting your game's servers on AWS. Your game can have zero hosting cost if you just let players host their own servers. Let people play the game they paid for, forever, instead of locking them in to playing on an AWS server then killing the game in a couple of years when it's not profitable anymore.

robviren

Give me self host code any day. This feels like the bait and switch AWS likes to pull. Would rather rely on the server in my dresser drawer than AWS for as much as I possibly can.

risingsubmarine

It's a trap.