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Gamesparks

Backend as a service for game development

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Overview

What Gamesparks does

AWS GameSparks is a serverless backend service designed specifically for game development. It provides real-time features, multiplayer support, and cloud integration.

What people use it for

  • Multiplayer games
  • Real-time games
  • Cloud gaming
  • Game analytics

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The honest half

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 Gamesparks.

  • AWS states "Starting October 1, 2022, access to the GameSparks console will no longer be available" and that all existing games and data needed to be migrated off the platform before that date

Pricing

What Gamesparks costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free Tier

Free

  • 1M API requests
  • 1M CloudWatch logs
  • Free for first year

Pay-as-you-go

$0.01 /request

  • Unlimited API requests
  • Real-time multiplayer
  • CloudWatch integration

Capabilities

Features

  • Real-time features

    Real-time features capability

  • Multiplayer support

    Multiplayer support capability

  • User authentication

    User authentication capability

  • Data storage

    Data storage capability

  • Matchmaking

    Matchmaking capability

  • WebSocket support

    WebSocket support capability

  • Cloud integration

    Cloud integration capability

  • Analytics

    Analytics capability

  • AWS services

    Integration with AWS services

  • DynamoDB

    Integration with DynamoDB

  • Lambda

    Integration with Lambda

  • CloudWatch

    Integration with CloudWatch

Behind it

Who makes Gamesparks

Company
Amazon Web Services
Based in
Seattle, WA
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