Basic multiplayer with AWS

• Uses API Gateway to establish a websocket connection
• Three Lambda functions that handle match making, game play communication, and disconnections respectively
• A game session DynamoDb table is used to track the websocket connection ids and game status

Tutorial Video

• https://youtu.be/X45VYma6738

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Sources

• https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/real-time-applications-using-websockets-with-aws-api-gateway-and-lambda-a5bb493e9452/
• https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/announcing-websocket-apis-in-amazon-api-gateway/
• https://github.com/aws-samples/simple-websockets-chat-app