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Migrating the Backend for Hit Game Gorilla Tag to AWS

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Discover how leading VR gaming studio Another Axiom successfully migrated their backend infrastructure for the hit game Gorilla Tag to AWS in this 20-minute conference talk from AWS re:Invent 2025. Follow their complete transformation journey from a fragmented collection of legacy vendor systems to a modern, scalable, and future-proof custom backend platform built on AWS. Explore the architectural decisions, performance optimization strategies, and cost reduction techniques they implemented using Amazon Fargate with AWS Graviton Processors, Amazon Aurora, and CloudWatch APM. Learn how they overcame performance bottlenecks and achieved seamless scaling capabilities while maintaining an immersive gaming experience for over 100,000 peak concurrent players. Gain insights into the specific challenges of modernizing gaming infrastructure and the practical solutions that enabled Another Axiom to build a robust platform that now powers all their games with improved performance, cost efficiency, and observability.

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AWS re:Invent 2025 - Another Axiom: Migrating the backend for hit game Gorilla Tag to AWS (IND396)

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