This document discusses tools for building viral games on AWS, focusing on Redis and Elasticsearch. It summarizes the key features of Redis as a fast in-memory database for tasks like leaderboards, chat, and analytics. It also outlines Amazon Elasticsearch Service for indexing and visualizing large logs. The document promotes these services as fully managed with no administration required and high performance and availability.

1. Everything You Need for a Viral Game*
*(except the game)
DarinBriskman
AWSTechincal Evangelist
briskman@amazon.com or@briskmad
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3. What You Need
• Compelling Gameplay
• The Right Graphics
• Social Proof
• Fun
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We Will Discuss None of This Today

4. Boring Stuff You Need
• Registration
• Parental Consent
• Leaderboard
• Chat
• Log Analytics
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In-Memory Key-Value Store
High-performance
Redis and Memcached
Fully managed; Zero admin
Highly Available and Reliable
Hardened by Amazon

6. Redis – the fast in-memory database
Powerful
~200 commands + Lua scripting
In-memory database
Utility data structures
strings, lists, hashes, sets, sorted sets,
bitmaps & HyperLogLogs
Simple
Atomic operations
supports transactions
has ACID properties
Ridiculously fast!
<500microsecond latency for
most commands
Highly Available
replication
Persistent
snapshots
Open Source
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Current Version: 3.4.2 (Oct 2016)

7. * Throughput determined by Requests per Second. Commands: Average% across SET, GET, INCR, LPUSH, RPUSH, LPOP, RPOP, SADD, SPOP, LPUSH, LRANGE_100, LRANGE_300, LRANGE_500, MSET was used.
Load: 1 Million Requests with Pipelined commands, Payload 3 bytes; Redis Instance compared: cache.m4.xlarge, cache.m3.xlarge; Same instance used to issue requests ( c4.xlarge with Redis Client/benchmark tool installed).
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ElastiCache for Redis delivers 34% greater throughput across various Redis commands using M4 instances vs. M3 instances.*
Amazon Web Services and Intel

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Fully managed service = Automated Operations
Database hosted on Amazon EC2 Amazon Managed DBS

9. Not if I
destroy
it first!
It’s
mine!
• Need uniqueness + ordering
• Easy with Redis Sorted Sets
ZADD "leaderboard" 1201 "Gollum”
ZADD "leaderboard" 963 "Sauron"
ZADD "leaderboard" 1092 "Bilbo"
ZADD "leaderboard" 1383 "Frodo”
ZREVRANGE "leaderboard" 0 -1
1) "Frodo"
2) "Gollum"
3) "Bilbo"
4) "Sauron”
ZREVRANK "leaderboard" "Sauron"
(integer) 3
Real-time Leaderboard

10. Chat and Messaging
• PUBLISH and SUBSCRIBE Redis commands
• Game or Mobile chat, real-time comment streams
• Server intercommunication
SUBSCRIBE chat_channel:114
PUBLISH chat_channel:114 "Hello all"
>> ["message", "chat_channel:114", "Hello all"]
UNSUBSCRIBE chat_channel:114

11. Find out more:
https://aws.amazon.com/redis/
ElastiCache at the AWS Database Blog:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/category/elasticache/
Or ask your Solutions Architect!
Amazon
ElastiCache
Service

12. The S-Curve

13. Open Source Distributed Index
Managed Service using Elasticsearch and Kibana
Fully managed; Zero admin
Highly Available and Reliable
RESTful API for easy integration
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service

14. What to do with a terabyte of logs?

15. Easy to use and scalable
AWS SDK
AWS CLI
AWS
CloudFormation
Elastic Load
Balancing
AWS IAM
Amazon Clou
dWatch
AWS CloudTrail

16. Visualize it with Kibana 5!

17. Find out more:
https://aws.amazon.com/elasticsearch-service/
AWS Centralized Logging:
https://aws.amazon.com/answers/logging/centralized-logging/
Elasticsearch at the AWS Database Blog:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/category/elasticsearch/
Or ask your Solutions Architect!
Amazon
Elasticsearch
Service