This metaverse project takes on the computational challenges facing the industry

AWS supported Fortnite's 2020 Travis Scott concert--which was attended by 12 million people--but the only way Fortnite could host this enormous audience was to bundle players into groups of about 50, called shards, to which the concert was simultaneously broadcast. Fortnite could not gather the concert's 12 million viewers in one place at the same time; instead, users were shown an illusion of synchronicity.