What is Amazon GameLift Servers?

Deploy hosting in Amazon Regions and Local Zones worldwide to bring your games to new players. See a complete list of locations supported by Amazon GameLift Servers.

Deliver lowest possible latency and great player experience, wherever your players are located.

Use multi-location placement queues to dynamically place players into game sessions with optimal player experiences.

Optimize fleet capacity for cost efficiency while maintaining quality of service.

Scale capacity based on player demand using target-based auto scaling

Maintain capacity buffer to handle sudden player influxes.

Game hosting in the cloud, managed by Amazon GameLift Servers

Game hosting managed by you, with Amazon GameLift Servers Anywhere

Hybrid game hosting

Let Amazon GameLift Servers manage game server processes for you, track game server status and availability, and place new game sessions on request.

Use game session placement features to help players find and join game sessions that will provide the best possible player experience. Rely on Amazon GameLift Servers decision-making, or customize around criteria such as hosting cost, player latency, and geographic location.

Create game session placement queues to efficiently process new game session requests. Use features to set a balance between placement quality and speed that fits your game and player expectations.

Take advantage of optional player session features to reserve player slots in game sessions, validate players on connection, and monitor slot availability. Search or filter existing game sessions to find available slots.

Add robust matchmaking that's fully integrated with your Amazon GameLift Servers hosting solution.

Build custom matchmaking rules based on player attributes and preferences, such as skill level or character choice, and use complex logic as needed.

Set up team-based matches for competitive or cooperative gameplay. Balance players across team and/or match composition.

Optimize the matchmaking algorithm to balance match quality and wait times.

Support matches from 2 to 200 concurrent players.

Support match backfilling to fill available player slots and keep game sessions full.

Get real-time metrics on usage and performance for game sessions and player activity, as well as hosting performance and health for managed fleets.

Integrate with Amazon CloudWatch for alerts and dashboards.

Access server logs and event tracking for troubleshooting.

Analyze performance and utilization data to optimize scaling (managed fleets) or resource allocation (self-managed fleets).

Customize game session placement logic, including prioritizing for latency, cost, and location.

For managed hosting, choose your game hosting resources and provide instructions for launching and running game servers on each instance. For managed containers, fine-tune resource allocation across containers.

Define your own matchmaking rules.

Implement custom strategies for capacity scaling.

Add game server code to integrate with your existing Amazon services, such as databases or content storage tools.

Create a backend service with custom features to manage player join requests (such as player parties), handle authentication, or add custom logic and persistence.

Use services such as Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Simple Storage Service, and Amazon Aurora DSQL for game state persistence.

Implement Amazon Cognito for player authentication.

Process game analytics with Amazon Kinesisand Amazon S3.

Add voice chat with Amazon Chime SDK.

Create custom game features using Amazon Lambda and Amazon API Gateway.