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What is Amazon GameLift?

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What is Amazon GameLift? - Amazon GameLift

Use Amazon GameLift to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated, low-cost servers in the cloud for session-based multiplayer games. Built on AWS global computing infrastructure, Amazon GameLift helps deliver high-performance, high-reliability game servers while dynamically scaling your resource usage to meet worldwide player demand.

What you can do with Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift supports these use cases and more:

  • Host your own custom multiplayer game servers in the cloud with Amazon GameLift managed EC2 hosting.

  • Run low-cost managed hosting resources using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Spot Instances.

  • Host your containerized game servers for flexibility across platforms and to support migrations with Amazon GameLift managed containers.

  • Create a hybrid hosting solution to support multi-cloud and/or on-premises hosting while managing game sessions all in one place with Amazon GameLift Anywhere.

  • Create a robust matchmaking system for your multiplayer games with Amazon GameLift FlexMatch.

  • Scale your managed hosting capacity automatically to meet your game needs based on actual player usage.

  • Manage your Amazon EC2 compute resources for gaming all in one place using Amazon GameLift FleetIQ.

  • Create an iterative test environment for your game server and client builds with Amazon GameLift Anywhere and EC2.

Tip

To try out Amazon GameLift game server hosting, see Getting started with Amazon GameLift.

How to work with Amazon GameLift

Use these tools to work with Amazon GameLift.

AWS CLI

Use this command line tool to make calls to the AWS SDK, including the Amazon GameLift API. For information about using the AWS CLI, see Getting started with the AWS CLI in the AWS Command Line Interface User Guide.

Amazon GameLift console

Use the AWS Management Console for Amazon GameLift to manage your game deployments, configure resources, and track player usage and performance metrics. The Amazon GameLift console provides a GUI alternative to managing resources programmatically with the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI).

Amazon GameLift SDKs

The Amazon GameLift SDKs contain the libraries needed to communicate with Amazon GameLift from your game clients, game servers, and game services. For more information, see Get Amazon GameLift development tools.

Amazon GameLift Realtime Client SDK

The Realtime Client SDK enables a game client to connect to the Realtime server, join game sessions, and stay in sync with other players. Download the SDK and learn more about making API calls with the Realtime Servers client API (C#).

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