Gaming Services

## Alibaba Cloud for Games Fuel game businesses with agility, availability, and productivity Contact SalesDownload eBook - [Why Us](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_9281730050) - [Solutions](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_1013717310) - [Customers](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_5478780140) - [Security and Compliance](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_2809543320) - [Resources](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_6482418000) Why Us - [Why Us](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_9281730050) - [Solutions](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_1013717310) - [Customers](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_5478780140) - [Security and Compliance](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_2809543320) - [Resources](https://www.alibabacloud.com/#J_6482418000) ##### Cost-Effective Game Development Save game development costs and time with highly scalable cloud databases, reliable and high-speed data migration service, agile game data rollbacks, and high-performance remote rendering service ##### Secure and Accelerated Global Access Defend your game servers against CC attacks and Db-level DDoS attacks with Anti-DDoS on a global transmission network that features nearest-node access, high availability, and low latency ##### High Performance and Resilient Infrastructure Provide a smooth game experience to global players and scale in/out according to your business needs on Alibaba Cloud’s robust global network that incorporates 180 Tbps of bandwidth and 3,200+ nodes across six continents ##### Personalized Game Service Fulfill differentiated player requirements with enriched game-related functions and services (such as real-time in-game voice chat, HD livestreaming, and game finance) based on blockchain technology ## Accelerate Game Innovations with Alibaba Cloud **Global Game Servers** Alibaba Cloud supports game development and operations at different stages. You can scale with customized deployments based on factors such as the geographical distribution of players in key regions, sensitivity to network latency, and data consistency strategies. The broad selection of [ECS](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/ecs) provides a wide range of CPU/GPU instance families designed for various scenarios to achieve optimal performance and cost-effectiveness. **High-Concurrency Architecture** Alibaba Cloud [Server Load Balancer](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/server-load-balancer) ensures high availability of games and websites during traffic bursts by distributing network traffic across groups of backend servers at Layer 4 and supporting auto scaling at Layer 7 while maintaining a low network latency. Our flexible [Cloud Database Solutions for Games](https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/database-for-gaming) support concurrent large-volume data operations with quick database scale-out and low-latency data updates. **Cloud-Native Game Development** [Alibaba Cloud Container Service for Kubernetes (ACK)](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/kubernetes), a leading cloud-native solution, provides comprehensive containerized deployment and operation support for game developers. The open-source project OpenKruiseGame (OKG) provides game developers with a series of solutions designed for typical scenarios of game server operations. This includes hot version updates, direct network connections, quick server online/offline switching, etc., significantly improving efficiency and reducing game development and operations costs. **Real-Time 3D Rendering** You can perform complicated rendering tasks for characters, objects, and scenarios in real-time with our [Remote Rendering](https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/remote-rendering) solution that automatically scales in/out scenario-based ECS and EGPU instances based on workloads. The [Elastic GPU Service](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/gpu) accelerates compute-intensive tasks, including virtual reality (VR) rendering, graphic/video processing, and visualization, with powerful parallel computing capabilities of GPUs. **Content Delivery Network** [Alibaba Cloud CDN](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/cdn) and [Dynamic Route for Content Delivery Network (DCDN)](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/dcdn) help accelerate content delivery to global users based on a CDN network with 180 Tbps of bandwidth and 3,200+ nodes across six continents. It supports major ISPs worldwide, reduces response time to milliseconds, and leverages an interconnected backbone network so any instances attached can communicate with each other. These instances stay in sync with the network while desensitizing and processing data locally to ensure high efficiency and security compliance. **Game Acceleration** Alibaba Cloud provides network acceleration products for different stages of your gaming business. [Anycast EIP](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/anycast-eip/latest/169284) provides high-speed access for global ISPs based on 89 high-quality BGP lines worldwide. This reduces network congestion, improves game lagging and reconnecting, and fixes ingresses of games hosted on Alibaba Cloud to players in different regions in and out of China through the nearest access point with a low network latency. You can also use our [Global Accelerator](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/ga) to speed up data transmission, stabilize bandwidth, and enable high reliability for global-scale games. **Game Traffic Security** Alibaba Cloud [Anti-DDoS](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/ddos) effectively defends your game servers and networks against Tb-level DDoS attacks with an AI-enabled protection system based on big data and machine learning. You can also choose Anti-DDoS editions based on business needs with [EIP](https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/elastic-ip-address/latest/170919), which supports Anti-DDoS Origin Basic by default. [Web Application Firewall (WAF)](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/web-application-firewall) automatically detects and defends against the latest web vulnerabilities for games, enables comprehensive disaster recovery for the game network, and provides network-wide threat intelligence accumulated and updated from the real service scenarios of Alibaba Cloud. **Game Server Merging** Our [Cloud Database Solutions for Gaming](https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/database-for-gaming) support the server merge of popular databases with data transmission at up to 70Mbit/s and 200,000 TPS during peak hours. You can ensure data integrity and accuracy with throttling, 24/7 data validation, and failover during data migration without affecting business operations and identify possible conflicts between player data to guarantee full conformity with the business logic after a server merge. **Live Game Streaming** You can provide stable [Real-Time HD Livestreaming](https://www.alibabacloud.com/solutions/multimedia/livestreaming) services at low costs for gamers and audiences through advanced media capabilities (such as Narrowband HD ™ Transcoding) that reduce bitrate by up to 30% while maintaining video quality. You can deploy this solution in one stop to speed up your time-to-market. **Digital Marketing** [DataWorks](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/ide) is a one-stop data integration, development, scheduling, and governance platform that supports real-time data analysis and rapid model iterations. [MaxCompute](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute) and [Hologres](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/hologres)' cross-engine federal query computing, offline analysis, and real-time sharing capabilities are integrated with the distributed machine learning capabilities of [Platform for AI](https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/machine-learning) to achieve ultra-large-scale offline computing and real-time data query. This lays the technical foundation for intelligent search recommendations and accurate advertisement push services to increase user traffic and ads revenue, enhance customer engagement, and extract insights for more bu