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The major 2016 Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) cyberattack – launched by Minecraft-playing college students running a scam – impacted AWS' systems. Also, if Amazon's systems suffer from problems Fortnite and other services relying on its tech go down. At the time Epic said it had hit some technical limits in one of the regions it operates and the game went down. There were six outages of the game when it hit 3.4 million users in February. Fortnite is run on servers in 24 of the 55 availability zones that exist.īut this doesn't mean that things don't go wrong. And if one zone fails, another can step in. 'We have almost ten times difference in games server workloads between high peak and low peak in any particular region,' Epic's Dyl said in July.Īround the world, AWS has a series of availability zones that are designed to deliver web services that don't lag. Massingham says Fortnite uses AWS' elasticity to provide more capacity when users spike in numbers. This requires a huge amount of server space. Each month Epic deals with two petabytes of data (223,000 DVDs, if the disks are 4.7GB each).

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