In the gaming universe, downtime is the enemy. Not only do GameTech and regulated gaming development teams need to deliver always-on experiences for their users, but they also need to keep pace with rapidly evolving demands for real-time performance. When developing applications that support gaming, betting, and/or fantasy sports, traditional relational databases often become bottlenecks—unable to scale or adapt quickly enough to meet the needs of players worldwide.

CockroachDB on AWS (Amazon Web Services) provides the ideal foundation for building the next generation of gaming platforms. By combining AWS's scalable, globally distributed cloud infrastructure with CockroachDB’s cloud-native, distributed database architecture, gaming companies can achieve unprecedented levels of scalability, availability, and performance.

Join this session to explore how AWS and CockroachDB are transforming the GameTech and regulated gaming industries through:
Unmatched Resilience and Availability: CockroachDB’s multi-active architecture and AWS’s multi-region infrastructure ensure zero downtime, even during surges in demand.
Effortless Scalability: Automatically scale horizontally with CockroachDB’s and AWS’s elastic compute services to handle massive workloads across regions without interruption.
Optimized Gaming Architectures: Leverage AWS integrations such as AWS Lambda, Amazon Kinesis, and more to deliver low-latency, highly personalized gaming experiences at scale.
Simplified Global Operations: Comply with local data regulations by controlling where data resides while also reducing latency for your end users regardless of their location.

Unlock Scalable, Resilient Gaming Experiences with CockroachDB on AWS
00:00 Introduction and speakers
01:54 Agenda
02:25 Challenges in live service games
04:17 Technical trends and challenges for multiplayer games
06:33 Why CockroachDB on AWS for gametech?
07:46 How big of an issue is latency in modern gaming?
08:23 Vibe coding in game development
09:36 CockroachDB for real time gaming and real money gaming
13:50 CockroachDB explained
16:21 CockroachDB resilience explanation
17:30 Single region CockroachDB resilience
18:20 Multi-region CockroachDB setup resilience
19:35 How to meet data regulatory requirements with CockroachDB
20:40 Replication: Global Scale With Data Locality
22:10 Read/Write Anywhere: Global Scale With Data Locality
23:59 Bringing data closer to users with CockroachDB
25:27 How fine-grained can you get with data in CockroachDB? (Global tables)
26:24 What AWS services should you use for gaming?
27:34 What kind of load balancers should AWS users consider for gaming setups?
28:07 Why backups are critical in gaming
29:34 How Devsisters built a world-class game with over 150 million downloads on CockroachDB
31:34 How Hard Rock Digital built a complex, performant sportsbook app
35:00 How to modernize your systems with CockroachDB & AWS
36:15 The benefits of CockroachDB on AWS
42:35 Q&A

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