Data transfer costs
| GAMECOST03: How are you optimizing the data transfer costs for your game infrastructure? |
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Games can transfer a significant amount of data across the internet between your players' game client devices and your game infrastructure to provide the gameplay experience, as well as between the components of your game infrastructure.
For example, data transfer occurs when players download game content updates to their game clients, save their game progress state to the cloud, engage in real-time multiplayer game sessions with their friends, and when your game infrastructure transfers data between Regions and Availability Zones. It is important to understand where the data transfer occurs in your game workload to optimize your architecture choices to reduce this data transfer cost.
To optimize the data transfer costs for your game workload, consider the following best practices:
Best practices
