Amazon GameLift

2025/06/24 - 2 updated api methods

Changes   Add support for UDP ping beacons to ListLocations API, including new PingBeacon and UDPEndpoint data types within its Locations return value. Use UDP ping beacon endpoints to help measure real-time network latency for multiplayer games.

2025/03/27 - 9 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift Servers add support for additional instance types.

2025/01/14 - 3 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift releases a new game session placement feature: PriorityConfigurationOverride. You can now override how a game session queue prioritizes placement locations for a single StartGameSessionPlacement request.

2025/01/02 - 1 new 5 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift releases a new game session shutdown feature. Use the Amazon GameLift console or AWS CLI to terminate an in-progress game session that's entered a bad state or is no longer needed.

2024/11/12 - 9 new 11 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift releases container fleets support for general availability. Deploy Linux-based containerized game server software for hosting on Amazon GameLift.

2024/09/05 - 1 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift provides additional events for tracking the fleet creation process.

2024/04/24 - 4 new 10 updated api methods

Changes   Amazon GameLift releases container fleets support for public preview. Deploy Linux-based containerized game server software for hosting on Amazon GameLift.

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.