Hi folks,

Heads up that we will be making a few revisions to brainCloud's Public BaaS Pricing - effective for the February 2024 billing cycle.

Background: We regularly review the costs we incur in providing the brainCloud service vs. the costs passed on to you - and adjust our pricing accordingly (up or down). We work very hard to ensure that brainCloud continues to provide the very best value for your backend dollar!

brainCloud Hosting

Amazon has announced that they are charging additional fees for external IPv4 IP addresses starting February 1st, 2024. Our hosted Room and Relay servers use IPv4 IPs - so our hosting costs are affected.

As a result, the per-hour Hosting Management fee is increasing from $0.02 / hour -> $0.03 / hour.

Note - the Cloud Provider mark-up percentage of servers remains unchanged.

GameLift Hosting

brainCloud's support for Gamelift is essentially a BYOH (Bring Your Own Hosting) offering - where the hosting is done using the app developer's own AWS account (without markup).

brainCloud does charge a set API count per player delivered to the hosted GameLift servers.  Our analysis shows that this count isn't fully covering the costs of the associated lobby + matchmaking services - so we are increasing the API count Per Player fee from 5 -> 10 API counts.

These updates will be updated on getbraincloud.com in the next week or two.

Feel free to reach out to support if you have questions.