{"id":802,"date":"2021-12-13T09:50:12","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T09:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.workfall.com\/learning\/blog\/?p=802"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:04:07","slug":"gamelift-fleet-and-add-a-queue-to-accept-game-session-requests-route-using-amazon-gamelift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learning.workfall.com\/learning\/blog\/gamelift-fleet-and-add-a-queue-to-accept-game-session-requests-route-using-amazon-gamelift\/","title":{"rendered":"How to create a GameLift fleet and add a queue to accept game session requests and route them to the best fleet globally using Amazon GameLift?"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 8<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>\n

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MMOG (Massively Multiplayer Online Gaming) is a vast and expanding market with a diverse user base. However, while global internet access, which is required for MMOGs, has risen, there are still significant technological obstacles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s not easy to build sophisticated, reliable, and scalable infrastructure to offer MMOs. And, in any case, it isn’t a primary talent or emphasis area for game creators. They’d rather focus on providing the finest games possible to users and leave the MMO infrastructure to someone else. But how do you do it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amazon GameLift is the answer!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Statista – Market size of the video games industry in the United States from 2010 to 2021(in billion U.S. dollars)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this blog, we will demonstrate how to create a GameLift fleet and add a queue to accept game session requests and route them to the best fleet globally using Amazon GameLift.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What is Amazon GameLift?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed cloud service for setting up, running, and growing session-based multiplayer game servers. Amazon GameLift automates the tasks associated with running your own gaming servers, such as purchasing and installing hardware, as well as managing ongoing activity, security, storage, and performance monitoring. The auto-scaling capabilities of Amazon GameLift protect you from having to pay for more resources than you require, while also ensuring that your players can find and join games quickly. In this blog, we will download a game server, deploy it to your AWS account and create a GameLift Fleet that will accept game session requests, we will then extend this by adding a GameLift Queue that can accept the game session requests and route them to the best Fleet globally for the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The overall architecture is depicted below:  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The diagram below depicts the essential components of a game architecture hosted with the managed GameLift service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Step 1: Setting up the Game server and Cloud9 environment<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: Getting into the AWS console<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: Uploading the build<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 3: Creating a fleet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 4: Checking fleet creation progress<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 5: Testing the fleet<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 6: Creating a queue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 8: Testing the queue<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1.  Setting up the Game server and Cloud9 environment <\/strong><\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n