Amazon GameLift Servers in Amazon Web Services in China
Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling your session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud. Amazon GameLift Servers replaces the work required to host your own game servers, including buying and setting up hardware, and managing ongoing activity, security, storage, and performance tracking. The Amazon GameLift Servers auto-scaling capabilities provide additional protection from having to pay for more resources than you need, while helping to ensure that your players can find and join games with minimal waiting. Amazon GameLift Servers provides robust tool for matchmaking with FlexMatch.
Region availability
Amazon GameLift Servers is available in the following regions in China:
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Beijing Region
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Ningxia Region
How Amazon GameLift Servers differs
The following differences apply to Amazon GameLift Servers:
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Hosting with managed container fleets is not available.
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Amazon Graviton instance types are not available in Amazon GameLift Servers.
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Fleets that are created and reside in a China region cannot deploy instances to locations other than the fleet’s home region. In addition, fleets that reside outside of a China region cannot deploy instances to remote locations in a China region.
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For any queues that are created and run in a China region, they must contain only destinations (either fleets or aliases) that are also in the China region; destinations outside of the China region cannot be used. In addition, destinations that run in a China region cannot be used by a queue that is outside of the China region.
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For FlexMatch matchmaking, matchmaking configurations that are created and run in a China region must use only queues that are also in the China region; queues in other regions cannot be used. In addition, queues that run in a China region cannot be used by a matchmaking configuration that is not in a China region.
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When securely accessing Amazon services from Amazon GameLift Servers-hosted instances, instances in fleets that are deployed in a China region can only access other Amazon resources in the region; they cannot access Amazon resources in other regions. In addition, other Amazon resources that are deployed in a China region cannot be accessed by instances in fleets that are deployed in a different region.
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Because Amazon Certificate Manager is not available in the China Regions, TLS certificate generation is not available. New fleets must have the certificate configuration set to disabled.
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Use of AMD instances for Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ game server groups is not available in the China Regions.
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The use of personal compute resources with Amazon GameLift Servers Anywhere is not available.
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Server SDK 5.x is not available; this includes the use of C++, C#, and Go.
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Server side encryption for Amazon SNS topics is not available.
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Player gateway is not available.