Amazon GameLift Servers provides solutions for hosting session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud, including tools for deploying, operating, and scaling game servers. Built on Amazon Web Services global computing infrastructure, GameLift helps you deliver high-performance, high-reliability, low-cost game servers while dynamically scaling your resource usage to meet player demand.

About Amazon GameLift Servers solutions

Get more information on these Amazon GameLift Servers solutions in the Amazon GameLift Servers Developer Guide.

Amazon GameLift Servers managed hosting -- Amazon GameLift Servers offers a fully managed service to set up and maintain computing machines for hosting, manage game session and player session life cycle, and handle security, storage, and performance tracking. You can use automatic scaling tools to balance player demand and hosting costs, configure your game session management to minimize player latency, and add FlexMatch for matchmaking.
Managed hosting with Amazon GameLift Servers Realtime -- With Amazon GameLift Servers Amazon GameLift Servers Realtime, you can quickly configure and set up ready-to-go game servers for your game. Amazon GameLift Servers Realtime provides a game server framework with core Amazon GameLift Servers infrastructure already built in. Then use the full range of Amazon GameLift Servers managed hosting features, including FlexMatch, for your game.
Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ -- Use Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ as a standalone service while hosting your games using EC2 instances and Auto Scaling groups. Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ provides optimizations for game hosting, including boosting the viability of low-cost Spot Instances gaming. For a complete solution, pair the Amazon GameLift Servers FleetIQ and FlexMatch standalone services.
Amazon GameLift Servers FlexMatch -- Add matchmaking to your game hosting solution. FlexMatch is a customizable matchmaking service for multiplayer games. Use FlexMatch as integrated with Amazon GameLift Servers managed hosting or incorporate FlexMatch as a standalone service into your own hosting solution.

About this API Reference

This reference guide describes the low-level service API for Amazon GameLift Servers. With each topic in this guide, you can find links to language-specific SDK guides and the Amazon Web Services CLI reference. Useful links:

Installing

To install this package, simply type add or install @aws-sdk/client-gamelift using your favorite package manager:

npm install @aws-sdk/client-gamelift
yarn add @aws-sdk/client-gamelift
pnpm add @aws-sdk/client-gamelift

Getting Started

Import

The AWS SDK is modulized by clients and commands. To send a request, you only need to import the GameLiftClient and the commands you need, for example ListAliasesCommand:

// ES5 example
const { GameLiftClient, ListAliasesCommand } = require("@aws-sdk/client-gamelift");

// ES6+ example
import { GameLiftClient, ListAliasesCommand } from "@aws-sdk/client-gamelift";

Usage

To send a request, you:

Initiate client with configuration (e.g. credentials, region).
Initiate command with input parameters.
Call send operation on client with command object as input.
If you are using a custom http handler, you may call destroy() to close open connections.

// a client can be shared by different commands.
const client = new GameLiftClient({ region: "REGION" });

const params = {
  /** input parameters */
};
const command = new ListAliasesCommand(params);

Async/await

We recommend using await operator to wait for the promise returned by send operation as follows:

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
} finally {
  // finally.
}

Async-await is clean, concise, intuitive, easy to debug and has better error handling as compared to using Promise chains or callbacks.

Promises

You can also use Promise chaining to execute send operation.

client.send(command).then(
  (data) => {
    // process data.
  },
  (error) => {
    // error handling.
  }
);

Promises can also be called using .catch() and .finally() as follows:

client
  .send(command)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  })
  .finally(() => {
    // finally.
  });

Callbacks

We do not recommend using callbacks because of callback hell, but they are supported by the send operation.

// callbacks.
client.send(command, (err, data) => {
  // process err and data.
});

v2 compatible style

The client can also send requests using v2 compatible style. However, it results in a bigger bundle size and may be dropped in next major version. More details in the blog post on modular packages in AWS SDK for JavaScript

import * as AWS from "@aws-sdk/client-gamelift";
const client = new AWS.GameLift({ region: "REGION" });

// async/await.
try {
  const data = await client.listAliases(params);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  // error handling.
}

// Promises.
client
  .listAliases(params)
  .then((data) => {
    // process data.
  })
  .catch((error) => {
    // error handling.
  });

// callbacks.
client.listAliases(params, (err, data) => {
  // process err and data.
});

Troubleshooting

When the service returns an exception, the error will include the exception information, as well as response metadata (e.g. request id).

try {
  const data = await client.send(command);
  // process data.
} catch (error) {
  const { requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId } = error.$metadata;
  console.log({ requestId, cfId, extendedRequestId });
  /**
   * The keys within exceptions are also parsed.
   * You can access them by specifying exception names:
   * if (error.name === 'SomeServiceException') {
   *     const value = error.specialKeyInException;
   * }
   */
}

Getting Help

Please use these community resources for getting help. We use the GitHub issues for tracking bugs and feature requests, but have limited bandwidth to address them.

Visit Developer Guide or API Reference.
Check out the blog posts tagged with aws-sdk-js on AWS Developer Blog.
Ask a question on StackOverflow and tag it with aws-sdk-js.
Join the AWS JavaScript community on gitter.
If it turns out that you may have found a bug, please open an issue.

To test your universal JavaScript code in Node.js, browser and react-native environments, visit our code samples repo.

Contributing

This client code is generated automatically. Any modifications will be overwritten the next time the @aws-sdk/client-gamelift package is updated. To contribute to client you can check our generate clients scripts.

License

This SDK is distributed under the Apache License, Version 2.0, see LICENSE for more information.

Client Commands (Operations List)

AcceptMatch

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