A Discussion of Elite Dangerous and It's Use of Cloud Technology

Vector Stark · Apr 3, 2018

Greetings CMDRS!
I have decided to do a presentation on Elite Dangerous for school and I want to talk about the cloud technologies that are used to help make this game run. From my research I see that Elite Dangerous works with the help of Amazon Web Services. I came here to see if anyone well versed in game development or maybe even a game dev could elaborate a bit more on this. I believe I have a general understanding of how things work from reading a previous forum post about how Elite works, but it's always good to have as many details as possible with an emphasis on cloud technology.

Drelthar · Apr 3, 2018

There's a pretty in depth video on this somewhere...

two quiet suns · Apr 3, 2018

[video=youtube;EvJPyjmfdz0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0[/video]

prepare to have your mind expanded

Vector Stark · Apr 3, 2018

Thank you for this video! I ran across the slides online and was scratching my head around what I was looking at.

Quantis Trap · Apr 3, 2018

Interesting! I knew that elite was on AWS which, as a developer, I'm familiar with, but I hadn't see this video.

Robert Maynard · Apr 3, 2018

CMDR QUANTIS TRAP said:
Interesting! I knew that elite was on AWS which, as a developer, I'm familiar with, but I hadn't see this video.

It's a good one - it's got Dav in it!

#MoDav!

Drelthar · Apr 3, 2018

two quiet suns said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0

prepare to have your mind expanded

Nice one, that was the one I was on about.

Crimson Kaim · Apr 3, 2018

two quiet suns said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJPyjmfdz0

prepare to have your mind expanded

And yet this architecture has the worst performence of all multiplayer games I have played.

IndigoWyrd · Apr 4, 2018

Crimson Kaim said:
And yet this architecture has the worst performence of all multiplayer games I have played.

Are you sure about that? There's 0 chance it's you?

Fendalton · Apr 4, 2018

Crimson Kaim said:
And yet this architecture has the worst performence of all multiplayer games I have played.

Nonono, It's the Peer to Peer component you're thinking of, not things like the login servers or database servers.

Shadowdancer · Apr 4, 2018

Crimson Kaim said:
And yet this architecture has the worst performence of all multiplayer games I have played.

Call your ISP and tell them to suck less.