terminateGameSession
Ends a game session that's currently in progress. Use this action to terminate any game session that isn't in ERROR status. Terminating a game session is the most efficient way to free up a server process when it's hosting a game session that's in a bad state or not ending properly. You can use this action to terminate a game session that's being hosted on any type of Amazon GameLift Servers fleet compute, including computes for managed EC2, managed container, and Anywhere fleets. The game server must be integrated with Amazon GameLift Servers server SDK 5.x or greater.
Request options
Request termination for a single game session. Provide the game session ID and the termination mode. There are two potential methods for terminating a game session:
Initiate a graceful termination using the normal game session shutdown sequence. With this mode, the Amazon GameLift Servers service prompts the server process that's hosting the game session by calling the server SDK callback method
OnProcessTerminate(). The callback implementation is part of the custom game server code. It might involve a variety of actions to gracefully end a game session, such as notifying players, before stopping the server process.Force an immediate game session termination. With this mode, the Amazon GameLift Servers service takes action to stop the server process, which ends the game session without the normal game session shutdown sequence.
Results
If successful, game session termination is initiated. During this activity, the game session status is changed to TERMINATING. When completed, the server process that was hosting the game session has been stopped and replaced with a new server process that's ready to host a new game session. The old game session's status is changed to TERMINATED with a status reason that indicates the termination method used.
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Amazon GameLift Servers server SDK 5 reference guide for OnProcessTerminate() (C++) (C#) (Unreal) (Go)