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.
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, all locations that Amazon GameLift supports can host match-generated game sessions. Amazon GameLift processes matchmaking requests in the Region where you create the matchmaking configuration. For requests that reference a matchmaking configuration, Amazon GameLift routes those requests to the Region where you created the configuration, wherever it resides. For more information about Amazon GameLift FlexMatch, see What is Amazon GameLift FlexMatch?