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Amazon GameLift vs Photon Engine

A side-by-side look at Amazon GameLift and Photon Engine. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift

Gaming Software

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud. It handles infrastructure provisioning and management, game session placement, player matchmaking, and more.

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Photon Engine

Photon Engine

Gaming Software

Photon Engine is a proprietary multiplayer game development platform that provides a real-time multiplayer game backend and networking engine. It handles hosting, networking, matchmaking, lag compensation and has out-of-the-box support for different platforms.

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