Fleets in the Amazon GameLift Servers console - Amazon GameLift Servers

Fleets in the Amazon GameLift Servers console

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 AWS SDK for Amazon GameLift Servers.

Console

You can view information on all the fleets created to host your games on Amazon GameLift Servers under your AWS 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 AWS Region. From the Fleets page, you can create a new fleet or view additional detail on a fleet. A fleet's detail page 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. You can adjust the table content as needed using the Preferences tool (see the Gear icon representing settings or configuration options. icon in the upper right corner of the table). Custom preferences are saved to your AWS account user and are automatically applied whenever you view this page.

  • ID – An identifier assigned to the fleet. This ID is unique within the AWS 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.

  • 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.

AWS SDK

Use the following AWS CLI commands to retrieve information about this resource: