Amazon GameLift Servers game hosting options

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 AWS 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 AWS resources.

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

Characteristics

• Develop a custom architecture with lightweight containers to run your game server build, dependencies and auxillary software.

• Use Docker tools to create a Linux-based container image. Store images in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) repository for deployment.

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

• Manage hosting fleet life-cycle with tools to model game server versions. Deploy game server updates and other configuration changes as needed.

• Track game hosting performance with container-specific performance metrics. Monitor the health of your fleet resources using hardware metrics.

• Manage container fleet resources using AWS CloudFormation templates for Amazon GameLift Servers.

Characteristics

• Deploy game servers on your own hardware, on-premises infrastructure, or other cloud providers. Make use of available hardware close to your players, anywhere.

• Use Amazon GameLift Servers session management features to monitor game server availability, start new game sessions, and join players to game session slots.

• Expand your hosting solution to the AWS Cloud. Supplement the capabilities of your existing hosting solution (on-premises hardware or other cloud-based hosting) by adding Amazon GameLift Servers managed hosting. With managed hosting, you can increase your hosting capacity or add "burst" capacity to rapidly scale up and pay only for resources when you need them. You can also take advantage of the Amazon GameLift Servers service's global footprint to reach more players around the world and provide the low-latency multiplayer experience they expect.

• Prepare for migration to cloud-based hosting. If you're considering or planning to migrate to the AWS Cloud, a hybrid hosting solution is a viable way for you to make the transition as gradually as you need to. It lets you build the solution you need right now while preparing for where you want to be in the future.

• Lower latency for players in locations beyond those serviced by Amazon GameLift Servers. If you're already using Amazon GameLift Servers managed hosting, you might need to support players in unusual situations. For example, you might want to better reach players in unusually remote locations or support players with special access needs. Add custom hosting locations and use Amazon GameLift Servers Anywhere to support those locations along with your managed hosting resources.