How to Build a Real-Time Gaming Leaderboard with Amazon DynamoDB and Rockset

Today's games are generating more data than ever and a lot of games have become data intensive applications. With analytics, you can turn gaming data into valuable, actionable insights about ongoing trends and player behavior, and meet your player's high expectations for amazing games. Cloud-based managed services like Amazon DynamoDB and Rockset provide easier, faster and cost effective ways to store, process and analyze game data.

Figure 1 – Leaderboard architecture.

In this AWS Partner Network joint blog with Rockset's Shruti Bhat, we describe how to couple Rockset with Amazon DynamoDB to deliver real-time search, joins and aggregations on gaming data sets stored in Amazon DynamoDB.

 

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/how-to-build-a-real-time-gaming-leaderboard-with-amazon-dynamodb-and-rockset/

 

 

 

 

AWS Whitepaper - Optimizing MySQL Running on Amazon EC2 Using Amazon EBS

This whitepaper is intended for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers who are considering deploying their MySQL database on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) using Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes. This whitepaper describes the features of EBS volumes and how they can affect the security, availability, durability, cost, and performance of MySQL databases. There are many deployment options and configurations for MySQL on Amazon EC2. This whitepaper provides performance benchmark metrics and general guidance so AWS customers can make an informed decision about whether to deploy their MySQL workloads on Amazon EC2.

 

 

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/pdfs/whitepapers/latest/optimizing-mysql-on-ec2-using-amazon-ebs/optimizing-mysql-on-ec2-using-amazon-ebs.pdf 

 

Contributors to this whitepaper include: 

• Marie Yap, Enterprise Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services 

• Ricky Chang, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Amazon Web Services 

• Kehinde Otubamowo, Database Partner Solutions Architect, Amazon Web Services 

• Arnab Saha, Cloud Support DBA, Amazon Web Services 

• Chi Dinjors, Cloud Support Engineer, Amazon Web Services