According to the blockchain gaming company, it will receive access to a large pipeline of game studio leads as well as support for successful transaction closures.
Immutable, a Web3 gaming platform, has partnered with Amazon Web Services to provide game developers with additional options as the cloud service provider expands its startup accelerator programs.
Immutable said in an Oct. 10 blog post that AWS has added it to a list of companies in its ISV (independent software vendors) Accelerate Program, where enterprises deliver software solutions that operate on or connect with AWS.
In addition, developers who wish to build on Immutable’s blockchain can join AWS Activate, a program that offers benefits such as technical support, training, and AWS cloud credits worth $100,000.
John Kearney, AWS’s chief of startups in Australia, stated that Immutable is a “great example of a local Aussie startup that has gone global” and reaffirmed the cloud provider’s commitment to expanding Web3 game development on its infrastructure.
Amazon EventBridge and AWS Lambda, serverless services that use events to connect application components, were used to develop Immutable.
According to the announcement, this has enabled the platform to “increase its scalability to handle a 10x increase in partnered games.”
Concerns have been expressed in the past regarding the centralization of gaming and Ethereum, as well as the reliance on Amazon, the market leader that controls approximately one-third of the cloud services market.
Michael Powell, the director of marketing for immutable products, alleviated some of these concerns by explaining to Fortune on Oct. 11:
“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 initiated public testing of the zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine (zkEVM).
According to the company, zkEVM will reduce game developers’ development costs while providing the security and network effects of the Ethereum ecosystem.
In March 2022, Immutable was valued at $2.5 billion following a $200 million Series C funding round sponsored by Singaporean state investment firm Temasek.