Case Study: Respawn Entertainment migrates Apex Legends to Amazon GameLift Servers with Code Wizards

Respawn Entertainment migrates Apex Legends in 10 days with Code Wizards

The customer, Respawn Entertainment, needed to migrate its live service game Apex Legends from a hybrid infrastructure to a modern, scalable cloud platform without causing player downtime or disrupting its development velocity. The vendor, Code Wizards, partnered with AWS to utilize the Amazon GameLift Servers platform to meet these challenges.

Code Wizards implemented a solution featuring a custom "player redirect layer" and a "Game Server Wrapper" to enable a seamless, phased migration. This approach allowed the teams to complete the entire traffic cutover in just 10 days with zero player-facing downtime. The migration provided Respawn with improved scalability, global low-latency performance, and enhanced observability tools, all while preserving their existing development pipelines.

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