Amazon says it can support up to 100 million concurrent users per game.
Amazon says it can support up to 100 million concurrent users per game.
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Amazon Web Services says GameLift can support up to 100M concurrent users per game

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) said it has benchmark tested support for up to 100 million concurrent users (CCU) for a single game.

Using Amazon GameLift, AWS can alleviate a developers’ game server hosting concerns by dynamically scaling backend resources. The test also showcased how Amazon GameLift can add 100,000 players to a game each second and spin up more than 9,000 new compute instances each minute. This offers developers the ability to scale their games far beyond what’s been previously possible.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.