Games Industry Lens – AWS Well-Architected Framework
Publication date: December 9, 2025 (Document revisions)
The AWS Well-Architected Framework assists cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. Based on six pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability — Well-Architected provides a consistent approach for customers and AWS Partners to evaluate architectures, remediate risks, and implement designs that deliver business value.
In this lens, we focus on how to design, deploy, and architect your games workloads in the AWS Cloud. We define components, explore common workload scenarios, and outline design principles that assist you to apply the Well-Architected Framework. We recommend that you begin designing your architecture by considering the best practices and questions from the AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper. This document provides supplemental best practices for games industry customers.
This lens specifies best practices that are intended to address the unique characteristics of building and operating games in the cloud based on our experience working with games industry developers and publishers around the world. It provides guidance on how to design and operate your environment so that it is cost optimized and scalable for fluctuations in global player demand. This lens also provides guidance for securing your game infrastructure and tuning performance to deliver a positive player experience.
This document is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technology officers (CTOs), game studio technical directors, architects, developers, and operations team members. After reading this document, you will understand AWS best practices and strategies to use when designing architectures for games.
Lens availability
Custom lenses extend the best practice guidance provided by AWS Well-Architected Tool. AWS WA Tool allows you to create your own custom lenses, or to use lenses created by others that have been shared with you.
To begin reviewing your games workload, download and import the Games Industry Lens
