Uploaded May 2024 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hear from Azure Gaming on the most common Azure & Azure OpenAI services for game development. This talk is meant for anyone interested in learning about ways to enhance and support game teams with the Azure cloud and new Microsoft AI tools.
In this talk, we will explore some of the common challenges that game developers face today and how the Microsoft Cloud is trying to solve them. We will discuss topics such as cloud database scaling and monitoring with Azure, how to enable remote game development that can match the performance of on-desk workstations securely, how to acquire, provision and deploy large scale build/test farms for efficient game testing, how to securely use and scale with cloud-hosted storage, how to efficiently host performance-critical game servers & services in Azure, and how AI is making game developers more efficient & create new features responsibly with Azure OpenAI Service.
Hear from Azure Gaming on the most common Azure & Azure OpenAI services for game development. This talk is meant for anyone interested in learning about ways to enhance and support game teams with the Azure cloud and new Microsoft AI tools.
In this talk, we will explore some of the common challenges that game developers face today and how the Microsoft Cloud is trying to solve them. We will discuss topics such as cloud database scaling and monitoring with Azure, how to enable remote game development that can match the performance of on-desk workstations securely, how to acquire, provision and deploy large scale build/test farms for efficient game testing, how to securely use and scale with cloud-hosted storage, how to efficiently host performance-critical game servers & services in Azure, and how AI is making game developers more efficient & create new features responsibly with Azure OpenAI Service.
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