Web3 gaming platform Immutable has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to build infrastructure solutions, with an aim to expedite and provide more accessibility to blockchain game development.
Immutable detailed in an Oct. 10 blog post how the collaboration will attempt to aid blockchain game developers to launch and scale their projects. Under the deal, Immutable joins Amazon’s ISV Accelerate Program, a sales program for firms using AWS services in their products. The move would aid the Web3 gaming platform in closing deals with global major game studios and win new customers, the announcement said.
In addition, developers building on Immutable’s blockchain can receive perks, including technical support, training, and $100,000 worth of AWS cloud credits by joining the AWS Activate program.
“By joining AWS ISV Accelerate and AWS Activate programs, we’re able to provide our vast network of game developers with a turnkey solution for quickly building and scaling Web3 games,” said Jason Suen, chief commercial officer at Immutable, in a statement.
Immutable has been developed using Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda, which are serverless services that utilize events to connect various application components. This integration has allowed the platform to improve its scalability to handle up to 10 times more partnered games, as stated in the announcement.
“Web3 gaming is one of the fastest growing sub-sectors of the blockchain industry and is already enjoyed by millions of gamers worldwide,” said John Kearney, head of startups at Amazon Web Services in Australia and New Zealand.
“AWS is supercharging Immutable’s development by onboarding new game studios, and providing them with resources through our flagship AWS Activate startup program and AWS’s ISV Accelerate Program, which give them the tools to accelerate their global launch,” he added.
Concerns have been raised about the centralization of gaming and Ethereum, as well as the reliance on Amazon. Amazon currently holds about a third of the cloud services market.
In an interview with Fortune, Immutable product marketing lead Michael Powell relieved some of those concerns:
“A lot of blockchain purists are very big into the idea of decentralization and that everything has to be on-chain and that’s a massive deviation from where game developers actually build.”
In August, Immutable and Polygon Labs collaborated to publicly test their zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM). That solution aims to reduce development costs for game creators and provide Ethereum’s security and network effects.