In Chapter 7, Creating Multiplayer Gameplay, we created a free AWS account. We will use that account for this chapter.
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AWS is a family of cloud-based solutions offered by Amazon, collectively known as AWS. Lumberyard and AWS are inexorably linked, which results in great benefits for the AAA game developer (that's you!). When we develop multiplayer games, we need a cloud-based solution for networking, storage, notifications, leaderboards, and so much more. AWS has a suite of offerings that we can use in our games.