Create Secure and Popular Games with Platform Engineering

With the explosion of mobile gaming, online microtransactions generated $67.94 billion in 2022.³ This massive flow of funds across cloud-based mobile game applications creates a target-rich environment for malicious actors to intercept players’ financial information and funds. Platform engineering can enforce extensive security protocols through infrastructure as code (IaC) when developers build applications and services that process financial data.

In 2022, the market value of esports reached $1.39 billion.⁴ To break into this lucrative and growing space, unscrupulous players are willing to cut corners to gain unfair advantages that boost their performance and profile. A favorite cheater tactic is to deploy aim bots and trigger bots to take other players’ in-game positions and automatically fire accurate shots. These bots artificially boost the cheater’s score and greatly frustrate the ethical players. Platform engineering can create easy-to-consume workflows for developers to incorporate stringent anti-cheating bot measures—workflows that ideally apply artificial intelligence and machine learning to adapt and stifle bot retooling and ensure all players experience equal game mechanics.

With the prevalence of in-game purchases, it’s more economical for game studios to focus on maintaining the popularity of their already released titles rather than developing and marketing new games. One avenue to keep games popular is to regularly update with new content, campaigns, and components. Platform engineers can play a crucial role in streamlining processes for game developers, enabling them to quickly incorporate updated materials and ensure that fans remain engaged and continue to make purchases.

By applying an extensive solution portfolio from F5, platform engineering teams can optimize the security and reliability of Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud services to ensure games are secure, fair, and engaging.

• F5 Distributed Cloud Bot Defense eliminates performance-enhancing bots that provide players unfair in-game advantages.
• F5 NGINX enables the seamless integration of AWS environments so developers can prolong the lifespans of popular games.

F5 solutions empower platform engineers to help facilitate the development of AWS applications and cloud services that enhance game performance, player experience, and profitability. With AWS-validated competencies in security, MSSP Level-1, container, and networking, F5 boosts cloud-native security, ensuring gamers can play and make in-game purchases with a high level of confidence.

Available in the AWS Marketplace, F5 offers industry-leading solutions that are simple to set up and manage, resulting in accelerated time to value.