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Service Information

Lab contains various AWS Services to make Full Stack Game Service. This part guides some of services used on this lab.

GameLift

Amazon GameLift is managed AWS Service for Session based multiplayer games.
GameLift provides high performance and high reliability with cost efficiency.
GameLift serves managed hosting for Session based game, Realtime game, and independent FleetIQ features.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/gamelift-intro.html

DynamoDB

Amazon DynamoDB is managed NoSQL database on AWS with high performance, scalability and reliability.
DynamoDB can be used efficiently on Serverless Architecture, and this database can handle high traffics on distributed environment.
In this lab, DynamoDB is used to store user data.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/amazondynamodb/latest/developerguide/Introduction.html

ElastiCache

Amazon ElastiCache is managed In-memory database compatible with Redis and Memcached.
In this lab, we are using for storing ranking data.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/WhatIs.html

SQS

Amazon SQS provides high durability queue for system. It is able to use decouple on distributed systems with this queue for flexibility.
Game processes result with SQS queue.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSSimpleQueueService/latest/SQSDeveloperGuide/welcome.html

Lambda

AWS Lambda is serverless compute service that runs code without provisioning or managing servers.
We are going to use Lambda functions as API backend. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html

API Gateway

Amazon API Gateway provides API endpoints for REST API and WebSocket API, and serves various features.
In this lab, we are using Lambda functions with API Gateway.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/apigateway/latest/developerguide/welcome.html

S3

Amazon S3 is Object Storage that we can use via Internet.
It is used for Static Web Hosting in this lab.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/Welcome.html