Amazon GameLift hosting locations - Amazon GameLift
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Amazon GameLift hosting locations

Amazon GameLift is available in multiple Amazon Web Services Regions and Local Zones. For a complete list of locations, see Amazon GameLift endpoints and quotas in the Amazon Web Services General Reference.

Amazon GameLift hosting

When you create a Amazon GameLift fleet, Amazon GameLift creates the fleet's resources in your current Amazon Web Services Region. Amazon GameLift calls this Region the fleet's home Region. To manage a fleet, access it from its home Region.

Multi-location fleets deploy instances to other locations in addition to the fleet's home Region. With multi-location fleets, you can manage capacity for each location individually, and you can place game sessions by location. Multi-location fleets can have remote locations in any Region or Local Zone that Amazon GameLift supports. The following diagram depicts a multi-location fleet with resources in two Regions. In the diagram, the us-west-2 Region includes two game servers, and the us-east-2 Region has one game server.

A multi-location Amazon GameLift fleet in two Amazon Web Services Regions, each with their own game server resources.

If you choose to use a multi-location fleet with instances in Regions that aren't enabled by default, you must enable those Regions in your Amazon Web Services account. Also, your Amazon GameLift administrator policy must allow the ec2:DescribeRegions action. For more information about Regions that aren't enabled by default and how to enable them, see Managing Amazon Web Services Regions in the Amazon Web Services General Reference. For a policy example with Regions that aren't enabled by default, see Administrator permission examples.

Important

To use Regions that aren't enabled by default, enable them in your Amazon Web Services account.

  • Fleets with Regions that aren't enabled that you created before February 28, 2022 are unaffected.

  • To create new multi-location fleets or to update existing multi-location fleets, first enable any Regions that you choose to use.

For game session placement, you can create game session queues in any location that Amazon GameLift supports. Amazon GameLift places game sessions from the location where you created the queue.

Amazon GameLift FlexMatch

For FlexMatch, you can host match-generated game sessions in any location that Amazon GameLift supports. Actual matchmaking activity takes place in the Amazon Web Services Region where you chose to create your matchmaker resources. Amazon GameLift routes match requests to the matchmaker and processes them in that location. For more information about Amazon GameLift FlexMatch, see What is Amazon GameLift FlexMatch?

Amazon Web Services Regions that support FlexMatch resources