(gam303) beyond game servers: load testing, rendering, and cloud gaming | aws re:invent 2014

November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas

Dhruv Thukral, Solutions Architect – Gaming, Amazon Web Services

Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems

Public Subnet

Master

Database

Internal Services Servers

Private

Subnet

Load Test

Scripts

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Load

Generators

Private or

Public Subnet

corporate data centerLoad Test

Scripts

Load

Generators

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Subnet

Direct

Connect

Internet

OR

External

APIs

Internet

Load Test

ScriptsRegion 1

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Load

GeneratorsLoad Test

ScriptsRegion 2

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Load

Generators

Load Test

ScriptsRegion 3

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Load

Generators

Hammer Time

Corporate Data Center

Load Test

Deployment

External

APIs

Internet

Internet

Direct

Connect

Load Test

Scripts

region

Metrics

Collection &

Graphing

Load

Generators

region

region

Internet

Developers

Developers

Developers

Load Test

Deployment

S3

Bucket

Developer

Workstation

Small Load

Test to Verify

Scripts

Upload

Finished Test

Scenarios to

S3

Download

Scenarios

Upload Raw

Results &

Aggregates

Full Scale

Load Testing

EMR +

RedShift,

Graphite or

Splunk et al.

Configuration

Management

Server

Pushes

Configuration

Code

Repository

Load Test Stack

Send Data

Developers

Developers

Developers

Load Test

Deployment

S3

Bucket

Developer

Workstation

Small Load

Test to Verify

Scripts

Developer

Pushes an

Updated Script

Restart Test

EMR +

RedShift,

Graphite or

Splunk et al.

Configuration

Management

Server

Pushes

Configuration

Code

Repository

Load Test Stack

Send Data

SNS

Notification

Download

Updated

Scenarios

http://bit.ly/110ig1l

November 13, 2014 | Las Vegas, NV

Yuval Noimark, VP R&D, Playcast Media Systems

Game is running

(and rendered)

on a server

Rendered frames are

streamed as video in

real time to the client

Gamepad commands are

sent back to the server

Management

System

Game is running (and

rendered)

on a server

Rendered frames are

streamed as video in

real time to the client

Gamepad commands are

sent back to the serverA management system to provision

games on servers and store progress

100+titleslicensed from:

And more…

France

Portugal

South Korea

G2 Instance (nVIDIA

GRID GPU) – running

and streaming games

EBS – attached to

the G2 instance as

games storage

S3 – storing user’s game progress

AMIs and Snapshots – store

instance and EBS image

AWS APIs – dynamically

create/terminate G2

instances according to load

G2 Instance

Amazon EBS

Amazon S3

AMI

Management System

Games

Streaming

Server

G2-based Games

Streaming ServerAMI

EBSG2

Instance

SW

Stack

Game Over

S3

Gameprogress

CPU

GPU

Storage

S3

G2

EBSUse EBS and achieve

local hard-disk

performance for

Cloud Gaming

Throughput challenge

Achieve

CPU & GPU

performance

on a Virtual

Machine

VM Challenge

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

160

180

1 4 71

01

31

61

92

22

52

83

13

43

74

04

34

64

95

25

55

86

16

46

77

07

37

67

98

28

58

89

19

49

71

00

103

106

109

112

115

118

121

124

127

130

133

136

139

142

145

148

151

154

157

160

163

166

169

172

175

178

181

Dirt3 CPU Usage

% Processor Time AWS % Processor Time Physical

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Dirt3 GPU Time

Physical G2

GPU processing time

is the mostly the same

0

100

200

300

400

500

125

49

73

97

12

114

516

919

321

724

126

528

931

333

736

138

540

943

345

748

150

552

955

357

760

162

564

967

369

772

174

576

979

381

784

186

588

991

393

796

198

5

IOPS

Running multiple games on a G2 instance with GP2 EBS

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Playtime 24 Hour Distribution

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