Jack Harrhy
Linkblog /2025/05/15

Running GTA V on AWS EC2.

Dhairya Shah - Running GTA V on AWS EC2: A Cloud Gaming Experiment That Actually Worked

Ever wondered if you could run GTA V in the cloud—not just stream it via a service, but actually install and run the game yourself on an AWS EC2 instance? That’s exactly what I set out to do. To my surprise, it worked—and it worked well.

Dhairya spins up a g5.2xlarge (NVIDIA GPU with 24 VRAM, 8 core CPU, 32 GB of RAM, and a 450GB SSD), to run GTA V on an EC2 instance:

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When there is a will, there is a way.