# Hardware and services
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|  GAMESUS02: How do you manage the use of compute resources in your games backend?   | 
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 Studios should develop a compute strategy that uses a mix of different compute types, managed services, and savings plan to optimize your usage. You should also optimize how game servers and backend services are packed on to compute instances to reduce the number of unneeded resources. 

**Topics**
+ [GAMESUS02-BP01 Select managed services for appropriate compute workloads](gamesus02-bp01.md)
+ [GAMESUS02-BP02 Right-size your compute and deploy GPU performance only where needed](gamesus02-bp02.md)