createFleet

Creates a fleet of compute resources to host your game servers. Use this operation to set up the following types of fleets based on compute type:

Managed EC2 fleet

An EC2 fleet is a set of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances. Your game server build is deployed to each fleet instance. Amazon GameLift Servers manages the fleet's instances and controls the lifecycle of game server processes, which host game sessions for players. EC2 fleets can have instances in multiple locations. Each instance in the fleet is designated a Compute.

To create an EC2 fleet, provide these required parameters:

• Either BuildId or ScriptId

• ComputeType set to EC2 (the default value)

• EC2InboundPermissions

• EC2InstanceType

• FleetType

• Name

• RuntimeConfiguration with at least one ServerProcesses configuration

If successful, this operation creates a new fleet resource and places it in NEW status while Amazon GameLift Servers initiates the fleet creation workflow. To debug your fleet, fetch logs, view performance metrics or other actions on the fleet, create a development fleet with port 22/3389 open. As a best practice, we recommend opening ports for remote access only when you need them and closing them when you're finished.

When the fleet status is ACTIVE, you can adjust capacity settings and turn autoscaling on/off for each location.

Anywhere fleet

An Anywhere fleet represents compute resources that are not owned or managed by Amazon GameLift Servers. You might create an Anywhere fleet with your local machine for testing, or use one to host game servers with on-premises hardware or other game hosting solutions.

To create an Anywhere fleet, provide these required parameters:

• ComputeType set to ANYWHERE

• Locations specifying a custom location

• Name

If successful, this operation creates a new fleet resource and places it in ACTIVE status. You can register computes with a fleet in ACTIVE status.

Learn more

Setting up fleets

Debug fleet creation issues

Multi-location fleets