Reduce Amazon GameLift costs with these tips

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Amazon GameLift cost saving tips

Optimize your Amazon GameLift costs with these tips

Use Spot Instances

GameLift Spot Instances can save up to 90% compared to On-Demand Instances by slightly lowering server availability. This drastically cuts costs.

Optimize Instance Types

Selecting EC2 instance types with the correct balance of compute and memory allows for multiple game server processes per instance, improving resource usage and decreasing costs.

Leverage Auto Scaling

GameLift's built-in auto scaling, like Target Tracking, dynamically adjusts fleet capacity according to player demand. This assures you only pay for resources being used.

Service information & pricing

About Amazon GameLift

About Amazon GameLift

Amazon GameLift offers affordable, low-latency server management for multiplayer games, adapting to player demand. It reduces latency and costs, provides reliable AWS infrastructure, and customizable on-cloud, on-premises, or hybrid deployment. It supports scaling game servers, using personnel hardware, transferring server workloads to the cloud, and player matching across platforms. Clients include UBISOFT, Behaviour Interactive, MetalHead Software, and Warner Brothers Games.

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Amazon GameLift pricing

Amazon GameLift gives hourly Spot and On-Demand pricing for each region and instance type. Spot prices, set by long-term trends, don't surpass On-Demand prices. Linux pricing is charged per instance-second used, minimum of 1 minute per instance. Autoscaling with monthly pricing available. Taxes and duties aren't included.

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