# Fleets in the Amazon GameLift Servers console
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The fleet resource represents a set of compute machines that are deployed with and run your game servers. Depending on your hosting solution, you might have managed EC2 fleets, managed container fleets, Anywhere fleets, or a combination.

View information about fleets in the Amazon GameLift Servers console or using the or Amazon SDK for Amazon GameLift Servers.

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#### [ Console ]

You can view information on all the fleets created to host your games on Amazon GameLift Servers under your Amazon account. In the console's left-side navigation, find the hosting option you want (Anywhere, Managed EC2, Managed containers), and choose **Fleets**. 

For each hosting option, the **Fleets** page lists fleets that are located in your currently selected Amazon Region. From the **Fleets** page, you can create a new fleet or view additional detail on a fleet. A fleet's [detail page](gamelift-console-fleets-metrics.md) contains usage information, metrics, game session data, and player session data. You can also edit a fleet record or delete a fleet.

A **Fleets** page displays the following summary information by default. 
+ **ID** – An identifier assigned to the fleet. This ID is unique within the Amazon Web Services Region where the fleet is created.
+ **Name** – A friendly name given to the fleet.
+ **Status** – The status of the fleet: **New**, **Downloading**, **Building**, and **Active**.
+ **Creation time** – The date and time the fleet was created.
**Note**  
A fleet displays a warning icon for fleets that were created more than 90 days ago. As a best practice, we recommend replacing fleets every 30 days to maintain a secure and up-to-date runtime environment for your hosted game servers. For guidance, see [Security best practices for Amazon GameLift Servers](security-best-practices.md).
+ **Fleet type** – The availability of the instances used to host your games, which can potentially impact hosting costs. A managed fleet can use **On-Demand** (always available) or **Spot** (availability varies) instances.
+ **Active instances** – The number of EC2 instances in use for the fleet.
+ **Desired instances** – The number of EC2 instances to keep active.
+ **Game sessions** – The number of active game sessions running in the fleet. The data is delayed by five minutes.
+ **Player sessons** – The number of active player sessions in the fleet. The data is delayed by five minutes.

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#### [ Amazon SDK ]

Use the following Amazon CLI commands to retrieve information about this resource:
+ Managed EC2 fleets
  + [ListFleets](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListFeets.html)
  + [ListCompute](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListCompute.html)
  + [DescribeFleetAttributes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeFleetAttributes.html)
  + [DescribeCompute](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeCompute.html)
  + [DescribeFleetCapacity](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeFleetCapacity.html)
  + [DescribeFleetUtilization](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeFleetUtilization.html)
+ Managed container fleets
  + [ListContainerFleets](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListContainerFleets.html)
  + [DescribeContainerFleet](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeContainerFleet.html)
  + [ListContainerGroupDefinitions](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListContainerGroupDefinition.html)
  + [DescribeContainerGroupDefinition](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeContainerGroupDefinition.html)
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  + [ListFleets](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListFeets.html)
  + [ListCompute](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_ListCompute.html)
  + [DescribeFleetAttributes](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeFleetAttributes.html)
  + [DescribeCompute](https://docs.amazonaws.cn/gameliftservers/latest/apireference/API_DescribeCompute.html)

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