Support for Gamelift Game Server Group

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Description

GameLift FleetIQ optimizes the use of low-cost Spot Instances for cloud-based game hosting with Amazon EC2. With GameLift FleetIQ, you can work directly with your hosting resources in Amazon EC2 and Auto Scaling while taking advantage of GameLift optimizations to deliver inexpensive, resilient game hosting for your players. Amazon EC2 Spot Instances, although offered at steep discounts, are not generally viable for game hosting because availability fluctuates and there is the potential for interruptions. GameLift FleetIQ significantly mitigates these limitations, making the use of low-cost Spot Instances viable for game hosting.

FleetIQ optimizations are also available when using GameLift to manage your game hosting. See the GameLift Developer Guide for more information on GameLift hosting options.

The GameLift FleetIQ game hosting solution is designed for game developers who:

• Have existing AWS deployments or want to use Amazon EC2 directly rather than through the fully managed GameLift service. GameLift FleetIQ works with Auto Scaling groups that you manage in your AWS account, giving you full access to your Amazon EC2 instances and groups. You can also integrate with other AWS services, including Amazon Elastic Container Service, Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Shield Advanced.

• Have existing on-premises game hosting and want to extend capacity to the cloud. With GameLift FleetIQ, you can build a hybrid deployment system that uses your on-premises capacity and incrementally adds AWS cloud capacity as needed.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_gamelift_game_server_group

Potential Terraform Configuration

Basic usage:

resource "aws_gamelift_game_server_group" "example" {
  game_server_group_name = "example"

  instance_definition {
    instance_type = "c5.large"
  }

  instance_definition {
    instance_type = "c5a.large"
  }

  launch_template {
    id = aws_launch_template.example.id
  }

  max_size = 1
  min_size = 1
  role_arn = aws_iam_role.example.arn

  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example
  ]
}

Full usage:

resource "aws_gamelift_game_server_group" "example" {
  auto_scaling_policy {
    estimated_instance_warmup = 60

    target_tracking_configuration {
      target_value = 75
    }
  }

  balancing_strategy = "SPOT_ONLY"
  game_server_group_name = "example"
  game_server_protection_policy = "FULL_PROTECTION"

  instance_definition {
    instance_type = "c5.large"
    weighted_capacity = "1"
  }

  instance_definition {
    instance_type = "c5.2xlarge"
    weighted_capacity = "2"
  }

  launch_template {
    id = aws_launch_template.example.id
    version = "1"
  }

  max_size = 1
  min_size = 1
  role_arn = aws_iam_role.example.arn

  tags = {
    Name = "example"
  }

  vpc_subnets = [
    "subnet-12345678", 
    "subnet-23456789"
  ]

  depends_on = [
    aws_iam_role_policy_attachment.example
  ]
}

References

• What is GameLift FleetIQ?
• General Availability of Amazon GameLift FleetIQ
• API CreateGameServerGroup
• API DeleteGameServerGroup
• API DescribeGameServerGroup
• API UpdateGameServerGroup

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