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Amazon GameLift
Enhance multiplayer experiences with dedicated cloud servers
Amazon GameLift
Enhance multiplayer experiences with dedicated cloud servers
Amazon GameLift is a dedicated game server hosting solution that deploys, operates, and scales cloud servers for multiplayer games. Whether you’re looking for a fully managed solution, or just the feature you need, GameLift leverages the power of Amazon Web Services to deliver optimal latency, low player wait times, and cost savings.
Amazon GameLift is a dedicated game server hosting solution that deploys, operates, and scales cloud servers for multiplayer games. Whether you’re looking for a fully managed solution, or just the feature you need, GameLift leverages the power of Amazon Web Services to deliver optimal latency, low player wait times, and cost savings.
Benefits
45 ms Global Median Latency
Up to 70% Savings
Flexibility
Benefits
45 ms Global Median Latency
Up to 70% Savings
Flexibility
Use Cases
Managed Servers
Flexible to Fit Your Stack
Migrate From P2P Servers
Competitive Matchmaking
Support Cross-Play
Use Cases
Managed Servers
Flexible to Fit Your Stack
Migrate From P2P Servers
Peer-to-Peer and listen servers are often viewed as a low-latent, cost-effective solution for games. However, they can create poor player experiences with host interruptions and dependencies on your players having good internet connections. GameLift customers like Ubisoft, Behaviour Interactive, and Illfonic migrated their P2P or listen server infrastructure to GameLift to achieve low cost and low latency dedicated game servers.
Competitive Matchmaking
Match players based on rules you define with Amazon GameLift FlexMatch. Whether you choose to build your matchmaking based on player skill, latency, or custom criteria, FlexMatch’s simple but powerful rules language makes it easy to quickly create robust player matchmaking. FlexMatch pairs the matchmaking service with a customizable rules engine. Once a match is formed, FlexMatch hands the match details to a queue of your choice. The queue searches for available hosting resources on your Amazon GameLift fleets and starts a new game session for the match.
Support Cross-Play
GameLift supports cross-platform play to connect your community and broaden your player pool of potential matches.
Game Services Architecture
Gateway
The gateway helps protect your service from denial of service load levels by providing a scalable, load-balanced service to host your services API. It also provides a mechanism to authenticate users to your services. In the Amazon Web Services cloud, the Gateway services include Amazon API Gateway to host the API, and Amazon Cognito for authentication.
Game Services
Game Servers
Game Services Architecture
Gateway
The gateway helps protect your service from denial of service load levels by providing a scalable, load-balanced service to host your services API. It also provides a mechanism to authenticate users to your services. In the Amazon Web Services cloud, the Gateway services include Amazon API Gateway to host the API, and Amazon Cognito for authentication.
Game Services
Game Servers
How to Get Started
Find out How It Works
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How to Get Started
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