Amazon Lumberyard is intended for building AAA games, which implies high-quality, memory-intensive games. Memory, as it applies to our games, can be grouped into three broad categories: physical memory required for the game, memory requirements on the player's console or computer, and cloud-based storage requirements. In this section, we will briefly look at each of these three categories.
It might not seem that how much physical disk space a game takes is an issue worth writing about. Remember, we are talking about AAA games, which are usually very large. If you are developing your game for a mobile device or a gaming console, then you will have to deal with additional restrictions. Mobile platform distribution networks, such as Apple's App Store and Google Play, have restrictions on the size of binary files uploaded to their respective stores. In additional, some consoles require a game to be playable within a specific amount of time once selected...
