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Martin Simecek, Microsoft
The document explores Microsoft's Azure cloud services tailored for gaming, highlighting its scalability, global reach, and various backend functionalities, such as game servers and data storage. It emphasizes the flexibility of using Azure for different architectural approaches like microservices and platform as a service (PaaS) to enhance game performance and user experience. Additionally, it touches on the integration of advanced technologies such as game streaming and cognitive services for content moderation and player interactions.
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- 5. Microsoft‘s cloud isan open cloud
- 6. What is MicrosoftAzure?
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- 8. Platform Services Security & Management InfrastructureServices Web Apps Mobile Apps API Management API Apps Logic Apps Notification Hubs Content Delivery Network (CDN) Media Services HDInsight Machine Learning Stream Analytics Data Factory Event Hubs Mobile Engagement Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication Automation Portal Key Vault Biztalk Services Hybrid Connections Service Bus Storage Queues Store / Marketplace Hybrid Operations Backup StorSimple Site Recovery Import/Export SQL Database DocumentDB Redis Cache Search Tables SQL Data Warehouse Azure AD Connect Health AD Privileged Identity Management Operational Insights Cloud Services Batch Remote App Service Fabric Visual Studio Application Insights Azure SDK Team Project VM Image Gallery & VM Depot
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- 10. Marketplace: Add morechannels How about offering your game servers for anyone to host themselves?
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- 12. Game Backend How abouthaving my backend hosted for me? How about not caring about the infrastructure?
- 13. Balance of responsibility Balance ofcontrol and responsibility depends on the category of the service MOVE-IN READY Use immediately with minimal configuration SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED Existing services are a starting point, with additional configuration for a custom fit BUILD FROM THE GROUND UP Building blocks, create your own solution or apps from scratch Responsibility On-Prem IaaS PaaS SaaS Applications Data Runtime Middleware O/S Virtualization Servers Storage Networking MicrosoftCustomer
- 15. Manage global expansion Howabout launching globally? How about making sure that players around the world have the best latency?
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- 18. 185М+INSTALLS Common cloud back-endfor games on Windows, Android and iOS Connected Gameplay https://blogs.windows.com/buildingapps/2015/02/27/mobile-game-studio-reaches-more-than-160-million- downloads-on-more-platforms-with-microsoft-azure-generates-10-million
- 19. Cope with spikesand growth How about being able to handle sudden spikes in demand? How about growing fast?
- 20. t Unpredictable load Compute t Predictable load Compute t Popularity Peoplestart to enjoy your game Compute
- 21. Realtime Multiplayer Traffic Manager MongoDBDatabase Redis Cache Custom Auto-scaling Load-balancing (endpoints) App Services + CDN Microsoft Azure
- 22. Divide & Conquer(Microservices) How about having an architecture that scales infinitely? How about worrying only about your game‘s logic and not the platform?
- 23. Platform as aService (PaaS) Microservices Azure Service Fabric ASP.NET Microsoft Azure Traffic Manager Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN) https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/Azure-Friday/Age-of-Ascent-from-Illyriad-Powered-by-Azure-Service-Fabric- and-ASPNET https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/johnshews_blog/2014/11/04/building-a-massively-multiplayer-game-on- microsoft-azure/
- 24. • Scales bycloning the app on multiple servers/VMs/Containers Monolithic application approach Microservices application approach • A microservice application separates functionality into separate smaller services. • Scales out by deploying each service independently creating instances of these services across servers/VMs/containers • A monolith app contains domain specific functionality and is normally divided by functional layers such as web, business and data App 1 App 2App 1
- 25. Distribute everywhere How abouthaving your content fully under your control? How about not having to worry about storage capacity?
- 26. Blobs: • Activity Feed •Game DVR • Leaderboards • Player Stats • Saved Games • Social Graph • Thunderhead Xbox and Azure Storage Tables: • Achievements • Comments • Friends • Matchmaking • Multiplayer • Push Notifications • Security (AuthN/AuthZ) One of the earliest and largest users of the Azure platform Many different services – Xbox Live, Xbox Game DVR, Xbox Music https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/xbox-improves-services-and-delivery-speed-by-playing-g https://customers.microsoft.com/en-us/story/xbox-one-game-dvr-uses-the-cloud-to-scale-store-and-di
- 27. Azure Storage Services Queues “Reliablemessaging at scale for cloud services” Data Lake “Big Data analytics with HDFS interface” Service Bus “Reliable cloud messaging as a service” DocumentDB “Managed NoSQL document store with MongoDB API” Azure SQL DB “Managed Relational SQL databases” Redis cache “High throughput, consistent low- latency data access” SQL Data Warehouse Elastic data warehouse as a service Use on Windows & Linux VMs Azure Search Cloud indexing and instant search
- 28. Next Games choseAzure DocumentDB for the persistence layer of its popular game. It provides: • Elastic scalability for millions of users • Key-value lookups and filtering by properties • Flexible schema to support social features • Intra-collection sorting for leaderboard scores • Single- and multi-partition queries The Walking Dead: No Man’s Land https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/the-walking-dead-no-mans-land-game-soars-to-1-with-azure-documentdb/
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- 31. GPU power forrendering and streaming How about you could render your scenes and assets efectively? How about you offered your game without the need to download it?
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- 33. NC6 NC12 NC24NC24r Cores 6 12 24 24 GPU 1 K80 GPU (1/2 Physical Card) 2 K80 GPUs (1 Physical Card) 4 K80 GPUs (2 Physical Cards) 4 K80 GPUs (2 Physical Cards) Memory 56 GB 112 GB 224 GB 224 GB Disk ~380 GB SSD ~680 GB SSD ~1.5 TB SSD ~1.5 TB SSD Network Azure Network Azure Network Azure Network InfiniBand NV6 NV12 NV24 Cores 6 12 24 GPU 1 M60 GPU (1/2 Physical Card) 2 M60 GPUs (1 Physical Card) 4 M60 GPUs (2 Physical Cards) Memory 56 GB 112 GB 224 GB Disk ~380 GB SSD ~680 GB SSD ~1.5 TB SSD Network Azure Network Azure Network Azure Network
- 34. Generating high resolution3D meshes and textures based on photographic data: • Large hall in Chernobyl (scan with 10k pictures) - one of the largest and most accurate 3D scans created • Areas of Pripyat - from the drone • Apartments in Pripyat • Sarcophagus of the reactor of nuclear power plant in Chernobyl Calculation of lighting for games
- 35. 3D Rendering atScale Admin/Ops Portal Modelling Software upload inputs submit job Return Output RESTAPI Manage digital assets Split Job in frames Azure Batch Usage & Telemetry Job Monitoring & Management Usage Reporting Governance (inc chargebacks) VM Renderer EXE VM Renderer EXE VM Renderer EXE Integrated Client Plugin Maya/3DS Max Renderers – Arnold, Mental Ray, V-Ray…. executables
- 36. Understand players Moderate content Ineed to build game mechanics based on emotions on player’s face I need to build game mechanics based on player‘s voice I need to keep my forums clean
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