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Service: wellarchitected · 2025-12-10 · Documentation low

File: wellarchitected/latest/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.md

Summary

Updated publication date, changed framework pillars from five to six (adding sustainability), modified lens availability instructions with GitHub link, and made minor editorial improvements

Security assessment

The changes are administrative updates (date change, pillar count update) and content improvements without addressing specific vulnerabilities. The security pillar remains mentioned but unchanged. The GitHub link addition doesn't introduce new security documentation.

Diff

diff --git a/wellarchitected/latest/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.md b/wellarchitected/latest/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.md
index 66282935c..6d619985b 100644
--- a//wellarchitected/latest/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.md
+++ b//wellarchitected/latest/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.md
@@ -3 +3 @@
-[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Well-Architected](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/)[AWS Well-Architected Framework](games-industry-lens.html)
+[Documentation](/index.html)[AWS Well-Architected](https://aws.amazon.com/architecture/well-architected/)[AWS Whitepaper](games-industry-lens.html)
@@ -5 +5 @@
-Custom lens availability
+Lens availability
@@ -7 +7 @@ Custom lens availability
-# Introduction
+# Games Industry Lens – AWS Well-Architected Framework
@@ -9 +9 @@ Custom lens availability
-Publication date: **November 19, 2021** ([Document history](./document-history.html))
+Publication date: **December 9, 2025** ([Document revisions](./document-revisions.html))
@@ -11 +11 @@ Publication date: **November 19, 2021** ([Document history](./document-history.h
-The [AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html) helps cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. Based on five pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, and cost optimization — Well-Architected provides a consistent approach for customers and AWS Partners to evaluate architectures, remediate risks, and implement designs that deliver business value. 
+The [AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html) assists cloud architects build secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient infrastructure for their applications and workloads. Based on six pillars — operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, and sustainability — Well-Architected provides a consistent approach for customers and AWS Partners to evaluate architectures, remediate risks, and implement designs that deliver business value. 
@@ -13 +13 @@ The [AWS Well-Architected Framework](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected
-In this Lens we focus on how to design, architect, and deploy your games workloads in the AWS Cloud. We define components, explore common workload scenarios, and outline design principles that help you to apply the Well-Architected Framework. We recommend that you begin designing your architecture by considering the best practices and questions from the [AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html). This document provides supplemental best practices for games industry customers. 
+In this lens, we focus on how to design, deploy, and architect your games workloads in the AWS Cloud. We define components, explore common workload scenarios, and outline design principles that assist you to apply the Well-Architected Framework. We recommend that you begin designing your architecture by considering the best practices and questions from the [AWS Well-Architected Framework whitepaper](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/framework/welcome.html). This document provides supplemental best practices for games industry customers. 
@@ -15 +15 @@ In this Lens we focus on how to design, architect, and deploy your games workloa
-This Lens specifies best practices that are intended to address the unique characteristics of building and operating games in the cloud based on our experience working with games industry developers and publishers around the world. It provides guidance on how to design and operate your environment so that it is cost optimized and scalable for fluctuations in global player demand. This Lens also provides guidance for securing your game infrastructure and tuning performance in order to deliver a positive player experience.
+This lens specifies best practices that are intended to address the unique characteristics of building and operating games in the cloud based on our experience working with games industry developers and publishers around the world. It provides guidance on how to design and operate your environment so that it is cost optimized and scalable for fluctuations in global player demand. This lens also provides guidance for securing your game infrastructure and tuning performance to deliver a positive player experience. 
@@ -19 +19 @@ This document is intended for those in technology roles, such as chief technolog
-## Custom lens availability
+## Lens availability
@@ -23 +23 @@ Custom lenses extend the best practice guidance provided by AWS Well-Architected
-To determine if a custom lens is available for the lens described in this whitepaper, reach out to your Technical Account Manager (TAM), Solutions Architect (SA), or Support.
+To begin reviewing your games workload, download and import the [Games Industry Lens](https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-well-architected-custom-lens/blob/main/games-industry-lens/games-industry-lens.json) into AWS Well-Architected Tool from the public [AWS Well-Architected custom lens GitHub repository](https://github.com/aws-samples/sample-well-architected-custom-lens).
@@ -31 +31 @@ To use the Amazon Web Services Documentation, Javascript must be enabled. Please
-Definitions
+Design principles