C# (CSharp) Amazon.GameLift Namespace

Welcome to the Amazon GameLift API Reference. Amazon GameLift is a managed Amazon Web Services (AWS) service for developers who need a scalable, server-based solution for multiplayer games. Amazon GameLift provides setup and deployment of game servers, and handles infrastructure scaling and session management.

This reference describes the low-level service API for GameLift. You can call this API directly or use the AWS SDK for your preferred language. The AWS SDK includes a set of high-level GameLift actions multiplayer game sessions. Alternatively, you can use the AWS command-line interface (CLI) tool, which includes commands for GameLift. For administrative actions, you can also use the Amazon GameLift console.

More Resources

• Amazon GameLift Developer Guide: Learn more about GameLift features and how to use them

• Lumberyard and GameLift Tutorials: Get started fast with walkthroughs and sample projects

• GameDev Blog: Stay up to date with new features and techniques

• GameDev Forums: Connect with the GameDev community

Manage Games and Players Through GameLift

Call these actions from your game clients and/or services to create and manage multiplayer game sessions and player sessions.

• Game sessions:

  • CreateGameSession

  • DescribeGameSessions

  • DescribeGameSessionDetails

  • UpdateGameSession

  • SearchGameSessions

• Player sessions:

  • CreatePlayerSession

  • CreatePlayerSessions

  • DescribePlayerSessions

• Other actions:

  • GetGameSessionLogUrl

Set Up and Manage Game Servers

Use these administrative actions to configure GameLift to host your game servers. When setting up GameLift, you will need to (1) configure a build for your game and upload build files, and (2) set up one or more fleets to host game sessions. Once you've created and activated a fleet, you can assign aliases to it, scale capacity, track performance and utilization, etc.

• Game builds:

  • ListBuilds

  • CreateBuild

  • DescribeBuild

  • UpdateBuild

  • DeleteBuild

  • RequestUploadCredentials

• Fleets:

  • ListFleets

  • CreateFleet

  • Describe fleets:

    • DescribeFleetAttributes

    • DescribeFleetCapacity

    • DescribeFleetPortSettings

    • DescribeFleetUtilization

    • DescribeEC2InstanceLimits

    • DescribeFleetEvents

    • DescribeRuntimeConfiguration

  • Update fleets:

    • UpdateFleetAttributes

    • UpdateFleetCapacity

    • UpdateFleetPortSettings

    • UpdateRuntimeConfiguration

  • DeleteFleet

• Manage your instances:

  • DescribeInstances

  • GetInstanceAccess

• Manage fleet aliases:

  • ListAliases

  • CreateAlias

  • DescribeAlias

  • UpdateAlias

  • DeleteAlias

  • ResolveAlias

• Manage autoscaling:

  • PutScalingPolicy

  • DescribeScalingPolicies

  • DeleteScalingPolicy

To view changes to the API, see the GameLift Document History page.