Integrate your game client withAmazon GameLift Servers - Amazon GameLift Servers
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Integrate your game client withAmazon GameLift Servers

The topics in this section describe the managed Amazon GameLift Servers functionality that you can add to a backend service. A backend service handles the following tasks:

  • Requests information about active game sessions from Amazon GameLift Servers.

  • Joins a player to an existing game session.

  • Creates a new game session and joins players to it.

  • Changes metadata for an existing game session.

For more information about how game clients interact with Amazon GameLift Servers and game servers running on Amazon GameLift Servers, see Game client/server interactions with Amazon GameLift Servers.

Prerequisites

  • An Amazon Web Services account.

  • A game server build uploaded to Amazon GameLift Servers.

  • A fleet for hosting your games.

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