Games Cloudfront.net -

Because CloudFront caches by default, studios disable caching for POST endpoints using Cache-Control: private, no-store . But the same edge infrastructure handles the request, providing low-latency log ingestion without spinning up dedicated telemetry servers.

A typical game client sends:

For a game with 50,000 patch variants (platform + region + language + version), invalidations become a line-item budget. Studios learn to use ( /v2/... ) instead of overwriting in place. DNS, CNAMEs, and the Illusion of Ownership Most studios do not serve directly from games.cloudfront.net . That subdomain is owned by AWS. Instead, they create a CNAME: games cloudfront.net