# Architecture selection
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|  GAMEPERF01: How do you select the appropriate hosting option for your game servers?  | 
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 Selection of the appropriate hosting option for your game servers is foundational to game server performance. Deciding to use EC2 instances, a container solution, or a fully managed service is one of the first decisions to make when architecting for production. Each hosting option will have varying capabilities and considerations for performance tuning, scaling, operations and integration. 

**Topics**
+ [GAMEPERF01-BP01 Evaluate game server resource requirements and scalability needs](gameperf01-bp01.md)
+ [GAMEPERF01-BP02 Consider operational overhead for scaling game servers](gameperf01-bp02.md)
+ [GAMEPERF01-BP03 Evaluate integration with other AWS services, development environments, target CPU architectures, and features](gameperf01-bp03.md)