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Amazon GameLift Servers

15 GB of bandwidth per month with the AWS Free Tier

Amazon GameLift Servers

Game server hosting purpose-built to power the world's most demanding games

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Welcome to Amazon GameLift Servers

Why Amazon GameLift Servers?

Game servers toughened to handle multiplayer games at massive scale while lowering your cost per player.

Latency and reach are critical for the best player experience. Deploy game servers around the world on reliable AWS infrastructure in 26 Regions and 9 Local Zones across 5 continents.

Be closer to where your players are and bring them low latency gaming experiences with 99.99% availability.

Game launches, events, and going viral can generate sudden demand spikes. With responsive autoscaling, be confident that your players can enjoy your game as intended, even during the most unpredictable circumstances. Don't sweat launch days.

Leverage hybrid compute across multiple providers including AWS, other cloud providers, and on-premises. Bring your own game server capacity and burst to the AWS cloud on demand. Amazon GameLift Servers manages sessions, server selection, and scaling, all from a single management layer.

Lower infrastructure costs per player to as little as $1/month by using Amazon EC2 Spot instances, AWS Graviton instances with up to 20% better price-performance, and Amazon GameLift Servers' intelligent autoscaling algorithm that rapidly reacts to fluctuating player demand and scales down game servers after peak hours.

Amazon GameLift Servers meets you on your terms. Plugins are available for major game engines such as Unreal and Unity, and SDKs are available for O3DE and custom engines developed on C#, C++, and Go.

Amazon GameLift Servers supports all major platforms and devices, including PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo, mobile, web, and AR/VR headsets. Integrations with popular game backends such as Pragma, Heroic Labs/Nakama, and AccelByte make it easy to add Amazon GameLift Servers-powered game servers with just the click of a button. 

Amazon GameLift Servers supports the full development lifecycle of containerized game servers, enabling consistent and secure deployments across on-premises, cloud, or hybrid environments on Amazon GameLift Servers instances.

Use cloud-agnostic DevOps tools like Terraform and Pulumi powered by AWS Cloud Control to deploy your game resources and integrate with the rest of your backend.

Key Features

Amazon GameLift Servers empowers you to build and scale the world's most demanding games. With predictive game server scaling, enterprise-grade security, and matchmaking for the largest crowds, Amazon GameLift Servers takes the uncertainty out of launch day. View all features

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Accelerate game development

Iterate quickly with Amazon GameLift Servers Anywhere which enables you to deploy, validate, and playtest changes to your game server logic in seconds.
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Launch with confidence

Game launches, events, and going viral can generate sudden demand spikes. Be confident that your players can enjoy your game as intended, even during the most unpredictable circumstances.
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Save on infrastructure costs

Lower infrastructure costs by using Amazon EC2 Spot instances, AWS Graviton instances with up to 20% better price-performance, or bring your own on-premises compute and burst to the cloud with AWS. Save costs with Amazon GameLift Servers' intelligent autoscaling algorithm which scales up and back down after peak hours.
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Integrate with existing tools

Bring your own developer tools and integrate directly with Amazon GameLift Servers. Get started in minutes using game engine plugins for Unity and Unreal Engine, or use SDKs available for C++, C# and Go.
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Unlock substantial cost savings

Amazon GameLift Servers provides a low-latency and low-cost game server hosting solution that scales dynamically with fluctuating player demand.

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Customer Success Stories

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GungHo upgrades the player experience through advanced matchmaking with Amazon GameLift Servers. Read more
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Scaling Authentic Educational Games Using Amazon GameLift Servers with Immersed Games. Read more
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Game Studio Small ImpactGames Runs Successful Alpha and Beta Tests Using Amazon GameLift Servers. Read more