2023/12/14 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift adds the ability to add and update the game properties of active game sessions.
2023/11/02 - 2 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift adds support for shared credentials, which allows applications that are deployed on managed EC2 fleets to interact with other AWS resources.
2023/08/17 - 9 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift updates its instance types support.
2023/06/29 - 11 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift now supports game builds that use the Amazon Linux 2023 (AL2023) operating system.
2023/05/25 - 1 updated api methods
Changes GameLift FleetIQ users can now filter game server claim requests to exclude servers on instances that are draining.
2023/04/20 - 11 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift supports creating Builds for Windows 2016 operating system.
2022/12/01 - 9 new 14 updated api methods
Changes GameLift introduces a new feature, GameLift Anywhere. GameLift Anywhere allows you to integrate your own compute resources with GameLift. You can also use GameLift Anywhere to iteratively test your game servers without uploading the build to GameLift for every iteration.
2022/08/25 - 6 updated api methods
Changes This release adds support for eight EC2 local zones as fleet locations; Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Kansas City (us-east-1-mci-1a), Los Angeles, and Phoenix. It also adds support for C5d, C6a, C6i, and R5d EC2 instance families.
2021/10/28 - 7 updated api methods
Changes Added support for Arm-based AWS Graviton2 instances, such as M6g, C6g, and R6g.
2021/03/23 - 3 updated api methods
Changes GameLift adds support for using event notifications to monitor game session placements. Specify an SNS topic or use CloudWatch Events to track activity for a game session queue.
2021/03/16 - 5 new 18 updated api methods
Changes GameLift expands to six new AWS Regions, adds support for multi-location fleets to streamline management of hosting resources, and lets you customize more of the game session placement process.
2021/02/09 - 7 updated api methods
Changes GameLift FleetIQ users can now use AMD instance families in supported Regions. In addition, FlexMatch matchmaking notification now supports SNS FIFO topics.
2020/11/24 - 8 updated api methods
Changes GameLift FlexMatch is now available as a standalone matchmaking solution. FlexMatch now provides customizable matchmaking for games hosted peer-to-peer, on-premises, or on cloud compute primitives.
2020/08/27 - 1 new 7 updated api methods
Changes GameLift FleetIQ as a standalone feature is now generally available. FleetIQ makes low-cost Spot instances viable for game hosting. Use GameLift FleetIQ with your EC2 Auto Scaling groups.
2020/04/02 - 13 new api methods
Changes Public preview of GameLift FleetIQ as a standalone feature. GameLift FleetIQ makes it possible to use low-cost Spot instances by limiting the chance of interruptions affecting game sessions. FleetIQ is a feature of the managed GameLift service, and can now be used with game hosting in EC2 Auto Scaling groups that you manage in your own account.
2019/12/19 - 3 new 30 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift now supports ARNs for all key GameLift resources, tagging for GameLift resource authorization management, and updated documentation that articulates GameLift's resource authorization strategy.
2019/10/24 - 10 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift offers expanded hardware options for game hosting: Custom game builds can use the Amazon Linux 2 operating system, and fleets for both custom builds and Realtime servers can now use C5, M5, and R5 instance types.
2019/09/03 - 17 updated api methods
Changes You can now make use of PKI resources to provide more secure connections between your game clients and servers. To learn more, please refer to the public Amazon GameLift documentation.
2019/07/09 - 3 updated api methods
Changes GameLift FlexMatch now supports matchmaking of up to 200 players per game session, and FlexMatch can now automatically backfill your game sessions whenever there is an open slot.
2019/04/25 - 5 new 5 updated api methods
Changes This release introduces the new Realtime Servers feature, giving game developers a lightweight yet flexible solution that eliminates the need to build a fully custom game server. The AWS SDK updates provide support for scripts, which are used to configure and customize Realtime Servers.
2019/03/07 - 2 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift-hosted instances can now securely access resources on other AWS services using IAM roles. See more details at https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/amazon-gamelift/.
2019/02/07 - 1 new api methods
Changes This release delivers a new API action for deleting unused matchmaking rule sets. More details are available at https://aws.amazon.com/releasenotes/?tag=releasenotes%23keywords%23amazon-gamelift.
2018/05/10 - 2 new 4 updated api methods
Changes AutoScaling Target Tracking scaling simplification along with StartFleetActions and StopFleetActions APIs to suspend and resume automatic scaling at will.
2018/02/15 - 8 updated api methods
Changes Updates to allow Fleets to run on On-Demand or Spot instances.
2018/02/08 - 1 new 8 updated api methods
Changes Amazon GameLift FlexMatch added the StartMatchBackfill API. This API allows developers to add new players to an existing game session using the same matchmaking rules and player data that were used to initially create the session.
2017/09/01 - 6 new 7 updated api methods
Changes GameLift VPC resources can be peered with any other AWS VPC. R4 memory-optimized instances now available to deploy.
2017/08/25 - 2 updated api methods
Changes Update spelling of MatchmakingTicket status values for internal consistency.
2017/08/16 - 11 new 8 updated api methods
Changes The Matchmaking Grouping Service is a new feature that groups player match requests for a given game together into game sessions based on developer configured rules.
2017/06/29 - 1 updated api methods
Changes Allow developers to download GameLift fleet creation logs to assist with debugging.
2017/05/16 - 7 updated api methods
Changes Allow developers to specify how metrics are grouped in CloudWatch for their GameLift fleets. Developers can also specify how many concurrent game sessions activate on a per-instance basis.
2017/04/11 - 7 updated api methods
Changes Allows developers to utilize an improved workflow when calling our Queues API and introduces a new feature that allows developers to specify a maximum allowable latency per Queue.
2017/02/22 - 7 new 12 updated api methods
Changes Allow developers to configure global queues for creating GameSessions. Allow PlayerData on PlayerSessions to store player-specific data.
2016/11/18 - 1 new 1 updated api methods
Changes Provide the ability to remote access into GameLift managed servers.
2016/10/13 - 1 new 8 updated api methods
Changes New APIs to protect game developer resource (builds, alias, fleets, instances, game sessions and player sessions) against abuse.
2016/09/02 - 6 updated api methods
Changes Adds Linux support.
2016/08/04 - 1 new api methods
Changes Provides a new Search API for GameLift, which allows game developers to retrieve filtered and sorted lists of their GameSessions.