Managing hosting with Amazon GameLift containers - Amazon GameLift
Key featuresUsing container fleets during public preview

Managing hosting with Amazon GameLift containers

This feature is under improvement as we respond to customer feedback from the public preview. Stay tuned for more details about the upcoming General Availability launch later this year. Thank you for your support and patience!

Amazon GameLift provides a complete cloud hosting service to support containerized solutions for game server hosting. With Amazon GameLift container fleets, you can take advantage of container benefits such as portability, agility, and fault tolerance.

Key features

The following features are available with Amazon GameLift container fleets.

  • Develop a custom container architecture with lightweight containers to run your game server software on Amazon GameLift hosting resources.

  • Customize resources provided by Amazon GameLift to build container images with your game server application. Use the provided dockerfile to create a Linux-based container image. Store images for your container fleets in an Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR) private repository.

  • Deliver low-latency player experiences by deploying container fleet resources to any AWS Region or Local Zone that Amazon GameLift supports. Create multi-location container fleets for streamlined fleet management. See Amazon GameLift service locations.

  • Test your containerized game hosting solutions with an Amazon GameLift Anywhere fleet. Use Anywhere to locally test your solution development, including your Amazon GameLift SDK integration and your container image configurations.

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

  • Use Amazon GameLift game session placement tools, including queues and FlexMatch matchmaking, to match players to the best possible game sessions being hosted on your container fleets.

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

Using container fleets during public preview

Public preview for the new container fleets feature is now ended.