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Amazon Luna
Cloud gaming service that streams both a subscription catalogue and games you own elsewhere
As of 31 August 2026, Amazon Luna starts at $9.99/month. Amazon cloud gaming, available on browsers, Fire TV and phones. Softwr lists it under Gaming. Amazon Luna is made by Amazon.com, Inc., available on Web, TV and console, iOS, Android.
Overview
What Amazon Luna does
Amazon Luna streams games from Amazon servers to a browser, Fire TV device, supported smart television, phone or tablet, with no local installation. It is sold as a subscription channel giving access to a rotating catalogue, with additional publisher channels such as Ubisoft+ purchasable on top, and a set of titles included for Amazon Prime members at no extra charge. The part that distinguishes it from other cloud services is the ownership model. Luna can launch selected titles you already own on the Epic Games Store, GOG and Ubisoft Connect, which reframes the subscription as renting hardware rather than renting a library. That is a meaningfully different proposition from a catalogue subscription where cancelling ends access to everything: with linked accounts, the games remain yours and only the machine goes away. The limit is that the feature covers a selected list, not your whole library. It suits people with a decent connection and no gaming hardware, households wanting to play on a television without a console, and travellers using a laptop. The trade-off is the usual cloud one: input latency rules out competitive shooters and fighting games, service availability is restricted to a list of countries, and a sustained connection problem means you cannot play at all.
What people use it for
- Playing on a television through a Fire TV stick without buying a console
- Playing on a work laptop or a low powered machine that could not run the title locally
- Trying a game on a phone or tablet with a controller while away from the main machine
- Playing selected titles you already own on Epic, GOG or Ubisoft Connect without a gaming PC to install them on
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Where it falls short
Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Amazon Luna.
- Input latency makes competitive shooters, fighting games and anything requiring precise timing noticeably worse than local play, and no amount of bandwidth fixes it.
- A sustained connection of around ten megabits or more is needed and Wi-Fi congestion in a shared household produces compression artefacts and dropped sessions at exactly the times people want to play.
- Service is available only in a list of countries, so travelling outside them ends access to a subscription you are still paying for.
- The play your own library feature covers a selected set of titles rather than your whole Epic, GOG or Ubisoft account, so it cannot be assumed to work for any particular game you own.
- The subscription catalogue rotates and titles are withdrawn by publishers, so a game you are part way through can disappear and you own nothing once you cancel.
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What people choose instead of Amazon Luna
Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.
- Amazon LunavsXbox Game Pass
Xbox Game Pass: Cloud streaming attached to a far larger catalogue, though the games remain rentals rather than purchases
- Amazon LunavsShadow PC
Shadow PC: A full Windows machine in the cloud rather than a curated catalogue, so anything you can install will run
Pricing
What Amazon Luna costs
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Luna Premium
$9.99 /mo
- Access to the Luna catalogue
- Streaming to browser, Fire TV, mobile and supported televisions
- Higher resolution and frame rate on supported titles
Included with Prime
On request
- A rotating set of titles playable at no extra charge for Prime members
- Requires an active Amazon Prime membership, which is billed separately
Ubisoft+ channel
$17.99 /mo
- Ubisoft catalogue streamed through Luna
- Bought as an add on channel rather than included in the base subscription
Capabilities
Features
No install streaming
Games run on Amazon servers and stream to browsers, Fire TV, phones, tablets and some smart televisions
Play your own library
Launches selected titles already owned on the Epic Games Store, GOG and Ubisoft Connect
Prime included titles
A rotating set of games playable at no extra cost with an Amazon Prime membership
Publisher channels
Additional catalogues such as Ubisoft+ bought as separate channels on top of the base subscription
Luna controller support
Works with standard controllers, or an Amazon controller that connects directly to the servers over Wi-Fi to cut latency
Twitch integration
Launch straight from a Twitch stream into a playable session on supported titles
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Questions people ask
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Can I play games I already bought?
Selected titles from the Epic Games Store, GOG and Ubisoft Connect, once the accounts are linked. It is a curated list, not your full library.
What internet speed does it need?
Around ten megabits per second sustained for standard streaming and more for higher resolutions. A wired connection or a five gigahertz Wi-Fi band makes a visible difference.
Is Luna included with Amazon Prime?
A rotating selection of titles is included for Prime members. The full catalogue requires the paid Luna subscription on top.
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- Ubisoft Connect
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