Since the launch of Fortnite in 2017, Epic Games has reached hundreds of millions of players worldwide. Fortnite runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS), and takes advantage of services such as Amazon OpenSearch Service to power certain internal analytics and drive decision making at scale.
Amazon OpenSearch Service has been helpful in understanding the game ecosystem. OpenSearch Service powers two types of use cases: search workloads and analytics workloads. A team at Epic Games had a use case for storing and analyzing a sliding window of game event data. This involves supporting complex queries and multilayered aggregations that feed analytical results into other internal systems, helping them power an evolving player experience. At the scale of a game like Fortnite with a large player base, these queries run against a significant volume of incoming data.
These insights help identify emerging gameplay trends, understand how players engage with new content, and…
