Amazon GameLift Servers game hosting options - Amazon GameLift Servers
Managed EC2
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Amazon GameLift Servers game hosting options

Amazon GameLift Servers offers a range of options for hosting game servers for session-based multiplayer games. Whether you want to set up cloud-based hosting managed by Amazon GameLift Servers or incorporate hosting resources that you already have, you can work with Amazon GameLift Servers to build the hosting solution you need for your players. For more details about what a game hosting solution looks like, see How hosting with Amazon GameLift Servers works.

Managed EC2

Offload the work of managing your production game servers onto Amazon GameLift Servers with managed EC2 hosting. Take advantage of optimizations for multiplayer game servers while still relying on the high performance and reliability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) and Amazon global computing infrastructure.

Start building an Amazon GameLift Servers managed EC2 hosting solution

Characteristics

  • Host multiplayer game servers that run on Amazon Linux or Windows Server operating systems.

  • Use Amazon GameLift Servers to deploy and manage your custom game servers to hosting resources Amazon Web Services Cloud. Choose the hardware type and where to deploy it, and configure additional details only where you need to.

  • Configure the runtime process manager to automatically maintain game server processes as needed to host game sessions.

  • Set up custom health tracking to help Amazon GameLift Servers detect and resolve poor-performing game servers.

  • Take advantage of Amazon GameLift Servers performance monitoring. Track metrics such as hardware performance and server process life cycles. You can also download and store game session logs.

  • Use Amazon GameLift Servers to manage access between game server processes and other Amazon resources.

  • For production hosting, automate game hosting deployments and management with Amazon CloudFormation templates and the Amazon Cloud Development Kit (Amazon CDK). Take advantage of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) tools and services such as Amazon CodePipeline.