Minecraft Realms completes migration to Microsoft Azure cloud platform from AWS
Minecraft finally completes its move to Microsoft Azure.
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What you need to know
Back in July of this year, we reported thatMojang Studios was seeking to migrate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to Microsoft Azure, a massive undertaking that would bringMinecraft’s private servers, known as Realms, firmly in-house with Microsoft. While this caught many players by surprise, since Microsoft bought Mojang Studios all the way back in 2014, this kind of migration is daunting in its scale, so it is in part understandable why it took the Swedish game studio so long to make the transition.
Today, the Microsoft Azure team confirmed with us that Minecraft has officially completed the migration to Microsoft Azure, with minimal disruption of play time for Minecraft gamers, which should make the game’s future development considerably easier and simpler for the development team. With this move, Mojang Studios believes it’ll be able to focus resources in other areas that would otherwise be tied up handling AWS and the management ofMinecraft Realms.
If these kinds of things interest you, the Microsoft Azure team has published the first of a series of posts on theMicrosoft Game Stack blog, which details the benefit of Azure’s game-dev tools, and how, while this move was a big one, means great things for Minecraft’s future. This is also a big win for Microsoft, as it means considerably more data and usage for Microsoft Azure, and reduced maintenance and development costs.
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Zachary Boddy (They / Them) is a Staff Writer for Windows Central, primarily focused on covering the latest news in tech and gaming, the best Xbox and PC games, and the most interesting Windows and Xbox hardware. They have been gaming and writing for most of their life starting with the original Xbox, and started out as a freelancer for Windows Central and its sister sites in 2019. Now a full-fledged Staff Writer, Zachary has expanded from only writing about all things Minecraft to covering practically everything on which Windows Central is an expert, especially when it comes to Microsoft. You can find Zachary on Twitter@BoddyZachary.
