Amazon’s latest AWS update hints at a bigger shift in cloud gaming. See what GameLift Streams means for developers, Luna, and Smart TV play.

AWS announced Amazon GameLift Streams, which enables developers to deliver high-fidelity, low-latency game experiences to players.Read More

Amazon GameLift Streams: Giải Pháp Tối Ưu Cho Phát Triển và Phát Trực Tiếp Trò Chơi Trong thời đại công nghệ số phát triển mạnh mẽ, ngành công nghiệp game đang dần chuyển mình từ mô hình truyền thống sang các giải pháp phát trực tuyến (streaming), nhằm đáp ứng nhu cầu ngày càng cao của người dùng. Và Amazon GameLift Streams…

Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. High latency caused by geographic distance between players and servers remains one of the most common challenges in multiplayer game development. This expansion helps game developers and studios address that challenge by bringing Amazon GameLift Servers to 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones worldwide. With this expansion, customers can deploy game server fleets closer to players across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, reducing latency and improving gameplay responsiveness.  The 5 new AWS Regions are il-central-1 (Tel Aviv), mx-central-1 (Mexico/Queretaro), eu-south-2 (Spain/Zaragoza), ap-south-2 (Hyderabad), and ap-southeast-3 (Jakarta). The 8 new AWS Local Zones are us-east-1-atl-2 (Atlanta), us-east-1-chi-2 (Chicago), us-east-1-iah-2 (Houston), us-east-1-mia-2 (Miami), us-west-2-phx-2 (Phoenix), sa-east-1-bue-1 (Buenos Aires), us-east-1-nyc-2 (NYC) and sa-east-1-lim-1 (Lima). To learn more about Amazon GameLift Servers and supported locations, or to deploy fleets in these new Regions and Local Zones, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/release-notes.html.

Amazon GameLift Servers is a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling dedicated game servers for multiplayer games. High latency caused by geographic distance between players and servers remains one of the most common challenges in multiplayer game development. This expansion helps game developers and studios address that challenge by bringing Amazon GameLift Servers to 5 new AWS Regions and 8 AWS Local Zones worldwide. With this expansion, customers can deploy game server fleets closer to players across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and South Asia, reducing latency and improving gameplay responsiveness.  The 5 new AWS Regions are il-central-1 (Tel Aviv), mx-central-1 (Mexico/Queretaro), eu-south-2 (Spain/Zaragoza), ap-south-2 (Hyderabad), and ap-southeast-3 (Jakarta). The 8 new AWS Local Zones are us-east-1-atl-2 (Atlanta), us-east-1-chi-2 (Chicago), us-east-1-iah-2 (Houston), us-east-1-mia-2 (Miami), us-west-2-phx-2 (Phoenix), sa-east-1-bue-1 (Buenos Aires), us-east-1-nyc-2 (NYC) and sa-east-1-lim-1 (Lima). documentation.

Amazon GameLift Servers now supports two significant container fleet improvements that enhance flexibility and inter-container communication for game server deployments. These new capabilities address common challenges faced by game developers using containerized architectures, providing greater control over container permissions and enabling seamless discovery of co-located containers on the same instance. You can now customize Linux capabilities for containers in your container group definitions, giving you finer control beyond Docker's default capability set. This is particularly valuable for game servers requiring specialized capabilities such as NET_RAW for custom networking protocols or SYS_PTRACE for attaching debuggers and profiling tools. Additionally, game servers can now call the new ListContainersNetworkInfo() server SDK action to retrieve comprehensive network information, including container name, ID, local IP address, and container group type for all containers running on the same instance. This enables automatic service discovery and simplified communication between game servers and auxiliary services like metrics collectors, logging agents, or caching systems. These improvements are available through the Amazon GameLift Servers console, AWS CLI, AWS SDK, and AWS CloudFormation. The ListContainersNetworkInfo() action is supported in server SDK 5.x for Go, C++, and C#, as well as in plugins for Unreal Engine and Unity. Both features are available in all AWS regions where Amazon GameLift Servers is supported, except China. To learn more, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation.

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports streaming over IPv6 for applications running on Windows-based stream groups, enabling dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) streaming capabilities. This enhancement gives our customers flexibility in how they connect to their streamed Windows applications while maintaining compatibility with existing IPv4 implementations. When streaming applications running on Windows-based stream groups through Amazon GameLift Streams, customers can now use either IPv4 or IPv6 protocols. This dual-stack support helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and provides additional addressing options for the streaming clients. Please note that Linux runtime applications will continue to require IPv4 connectivity for streaming. Amazon GameLift Streams IPv6 support for applications running on Windows-based stream groups is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered. To learn more about networking options for your streaming applications, visit the Amazon GameLift Streams documentation.

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers is launching AI-powered assistance in the AWS Console, leveraging Amazon Q Developer to provide tailored guidance for game developers. This new feature integrates specialized GameLift Servers knowledge to help customers navigate complex workflows, troubleshoot issues, and optimize their game server deployments more efficiently. Developers can now access AI-assisted recommendations for game server integration, fleet configuration, and performance optimization directly within the AWS Console via Amazon GameLift Servers. This enhancement aims to streamline decision making processes, reduce troubleshooting time, and improve overall resource utilization, leading to cost savings and better player experiences. AI-powered assistance is now available in all Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. To learn more about this new feature, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation.

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched new powerful observability capabilities with session performance stats that provide real-time data for individual stream sessions, offering insights into application performance issues. Game developers requested deeper visibility into session performance and resource utilization. The new stats we're delivering today help developers understand how their applications perform on specific stream classes and GPUs, giving them the data to make optimal GPU selections, optimize performance, and troubleshoot individual user experiences. Developers can now access detailed data on CPU, memory, GPU, and VRAM usage for active sessions through the GameLift Streams Web SDK, or view them in the AWS console's built-in overlay on the "Test stream" page. These performance stats can also be exported to a file for post-session analysis. GameLift Streams also launched improved session status reasons and error messaging. Game developers now have deeper insights and actionable information on the reasons for stream session termination, enabling them to root cause unexpected termination and improve their troubleshooting experience.  The stream session performance stats and improved API error messaging are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered at no additional cost. To get started with these new features, create new stream groups. To integrate session performance stats into your clients, download the updated https://gameliftstreams-public-website-assets.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/AmazonGameLiftStreamsWebSDK-v1.1.0.zip. To learn more, visit: AWS Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/developerguide/realtime-performance-stats.html; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/developerguide/stream-sessions-export-files.html API Reference: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/apireference/API_GetStreamSession.html > https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/apireference/API_GetStreamSession.html#API_GetStreamSession_ResponseSyntax

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched new powerful observability capabilities with session performance stats that provide real-time data for individual stream sessions, offering insights into application performance issues. Game developers requested deeper visibility into session performance and resource utilization. The new stats we're delivering today help developers understand how their applications perform on specific stream classes and GPUs, giving them the data to make optimal GPU selections, optimize performance, and troubleshoot individual user experiences. Developers can now access detailed data on CPU, memory, GPU, and VRAM usage for active sessions through the GameLift Streams Web SDK, or view them in the AWS console's built-in overlay on the "Test stream" page. These performance stats can also be exported to a file for post-session analysis. GameLift Streams also launched improved session status reasons and error messaging. Game developers now have deeper insights and actionable information on the reasons for stream session termination, enabling them to root cause unexpected termination and improve their troubleshooting experience.  The stream session performance stats and improved API error messaging are available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered at no additional cost. To get started with these new features, create new stream groups. To integrate session performance stats into your clients, download the updated Web SDK 1.1.0. To learn more, visit: AWS Docs: Real-time performance stats; Export stream session files API Reference: Stream Session > Status Reason

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers is launching AI-powered assistance in the AWS Console, leveraging Amazon Q Developer to provide tailored guidance for game developers. This new feature integrates specialized GameLift Servers knowledge to help customers navigate complex workflows, troubleshoot issues, and optimize their game server deployments more efficiently. Developers can now access AI-assisted recommendations for game server integration, fleet configuration, and performance optimization directly within the AWS Console via Amazon GameLift Servers. This enhancement aims to streamline decision making processes, reduce troubleshooting time, and improve overall resource utilization, leading to cost savings and better player experiences. AI-powered assistance is now available in all Amazon GameLift Servers https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/gamelift-regions.html, except AWS China. To learn more about this new feature, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/release-notes.html.

Amazon GameLift Streams now supports streaming over IPv6 for applications running on Windows-based stream groups, enabling dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) streaming capabilities. This enhancement gives our customers flexibility in how they connect to their streamed Windows applications while maintaining compatibility with existing IPv4 implementations. When streaming applications running on Windows-based stream groups through Amazon GameLift Streams, customers can now use either IPv4 or IPv6 protocols. This dual-stack support helps customers meet IPv6 compliance requirements and provides additional addressing options for the streaming clients. Please note that Linux runtime applications will continue to require IPv4 connectivity for streaming. Amazon GameLift Streams IPv6 support for applications running on Windows-based stream groups is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered. To learn more about networking options for your streaming applications, visit the Amazon GameLift Streams https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/developerguide/sdk-browsers-input.html#sdk-browsers-input-ipv6-support. 

Amazon GameLift Servers, a fully managed service for deploying, operating, and scaling game servers for multiplayer games, is now available in two additional AWS Regions: Asia Pacific (Thailand) and Asia Pacific (Malaysia). With this launch, customers can now deploy GameLift fleets closer to players in Thailand and Malaysia, helping reduce latency and improve gameplay responsiveness. This regional expansion supports both Amazon GameLift Servers managed EC2 and container-based hosting options. Developers can take advantage of features such as FlexMatch for customizable matchmaking, FleetIQ for cost-optimized instance management, and auto-scaling to manage player demand dynamically. The addition of these new regions enables game developers and publishers to better server growing player communities across Southeast Asia while maintaining high performance and reliability. To get started, visit the Amazon GameLift console or refer to the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/gamelift-intro.html.

Amazon GameLift Streams is now integrated with AWS Health and will provide automated notifications about aging stream groups. Customers are sent regular reminders via AWS Health to re-create their stream groups starting as early as the 45th day to the 335th day from the stream group creation date. Stream groups older than 180 days are restricted from adding new applications and automatically expire after the 365th day. This feature strengthens our customer’s security posture by helping customers manage the lifecycle of stream groups and prevent the use of outdated resources that might be missing updates. While the customer focuses on their game development, the service helps maintain the health of their resources. AWS Health will send a reminder to the linked account on the 45th day and on the 150th day from the stream group creation day, informing customers that the stream group will be restricted from adding new applications after the 180-day. A last reminder to re-create the stream group will be sent on 335th day informing customers that the stream group will expire on the 365th day. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered at no additional cost. Maintenance warnings or the expiration date of a stream group can be viewed on the Stream group details page on the service console, or by using the ExpiresAt field in the GetStreamGroup API response. To learn more about managing your stream groups and configuring notifications, visit the Amazon GameLift documentation on Stream group lifecycle.

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched two new capabilities to optimize performance and cost: Gen6 stream classes and enhanced autoscaling with warm buffer. The new Gen6 stream classes provide a wider range of price performance options, while autoscaling enables customers to dynamically manage capacity scaling.  The seven new Gen6 stream classes available today are based on EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, which provide up to 2x higher performance over Gen4 stream classes. The pro and ultra stream class deliver improved performance for graphics-intensive AAA games, while the medium and small stream class offer cost-efficient options for casual games. The gen6n_small stream class is available at $0.16/hour in us-east-2.  The enhanced autoscaling capabilities provide automatic capacity management that scales provisioned capacity dynamically with demand, helping customers optimize utilization and stream start time for new players. Developers can use the new capacity controls (minimum, maximum, and target-idle capacity) to precisely manage their scaling needs.  New Gen6 stream classes are available in five AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Improved autoscaling is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered. To learn more and get started, visit: AWS Docs: Gen6n based stream classes; Enhanced Autoscaling - Capacity configuration options; API Reference Guide: Create Stream group with gen6n based stream class; Capacity configuration option for stream groups

Amazon GameLift Servers now supports Amazon EC2 5th through 8th generation instances, offering enhanced price-performance, efficiency, and flexibility for game server hosting. This update allows developers to leverage the latest advancements in EC2 compute, memory, and networking across three main instance families: General Purpose (M-series): Balanced CPU, memory, and networking for a wide range of game workloads. Compute Optimized (C-series): High-performance compute instances with a 2:1 memory ratio, ideal for CPU-intensive game servers. Memory Optimized (R-Series): Optimized for high-memory workloads with an 8:1 memory ratio, supporting complex simulations and large player sessions. Each new EC2 generation brings significant improvements: 5th Gen: Proven reliability with Intel processors with balanced performance 6th Gen: Includes AWS Graviton2 ARM-based options alongside Intel and AMD variants offering enhanced price-performance efficiency. 7th Gen: The latest evolution featuring DDR5 memory, enhanced networking, and offering significant performance gains over previous generations. 8th Gen: Cutting-edge AWS Graviton4 and Intel Xeon-based instances for demanding workloads Customers can also choose variants with local storage (d), enhanced networking (n), and different processor architectures (Intel, AMD, Graviton – i/a/g). This update empowers developers with greater flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency to optimize game server performance. Customers can now seamlessly transition workloads to newer EC2 generations, leveraging AWS's continuous innovation for building, scaling, and operating multiplayer games globally. These next-generation instances are available in Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. For more information on launching fleets with next-generation EC2 instances, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation and EC2 Instance Types overview.

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched new console capabilities that let you view and connect to individual fleet instances. The EC2 and Container Fleet Detail pages have a new Instances tab to see a list of instances associated with a fleet. For each instance, there is an instance details page that displays metadata in a human-readable format (data also available via Amazon GameLift Server APIs). From the list and detail views, you can invoke the connect button, open a modal, and launch AWS CloudShell to start an SSM session directly into that instance. These console improvements give hands-on tools to debug, inspect, and resolve issues faster. Instead of relying on external tooling or guesswork, directly investigate host performance, pull recent game server logs, or diagnose issues such as network configuration and instance health - all from within the Amazon GameLift Servers Console. This reduces turnaround time when troubleshooting and enhances visibility into what’s happening “under the hood” of a game server fleet. SSM in Console is available in Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. For more information, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/fleets-remote-access.html#fleets-remote-access-console.

https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/streams/ is now integrated with AWS Health and will provide automated notifications about aging stream groups. Customers are sent regular reminders via AWS Health to re-create their stream groups starting as early as the 45th day to the 335th day from the stream group creation date. Stream groups older than 180 days are restricted from adding new applications and automatically expire after the 365th day. This feature strengthens our customer’s security posture by helping customers manage the lifecycle of stream groups and prevent the use of outdated resources that might be missing updates. While the customer focuses on their game development, the service helps maintain the health of their resources. AWS Health will send a reminder to the linked account on the 45th day and on the 150th day from the stream group creation day, informing customers that the stream group will be restricted from adding new applications after the 180-day. A last reminder to re-create the stream group will be sent on 335th day informing customers that the stream group will expire on the 365th day. This feature is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered at no additional cost. Maintenance warnings or the expiration date of a stream group can be viewed on the Stream group details page on the service console, or by using the ExpiresAt field in the GetStreamGroup API response. To learn more about managing your stream groups and configuring notifications, visit the Amazon GameLift documentation on Stream group lifecycle.

We're excited to announce the general availability of UDP ping beacons for Amazon GameLift Servers, a new feature that enables game developers to measure real-time network latency between game clients and game servers hosted on Amazon GameLift Servers. With UDP ping beacons, you can now accurately measure latency for UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packet payloads across all AWS Regions and Local Zones where Amazon GameLift Servers is available. Most multiplayer games use UDP as their primary packet transmission protocol due to its performance benefits for real-time gaming and optimizing network latency is crucial for delivering the best possible player experience. UDP ping beacons provide a reliable way to measure actual UDP packet latency between players and game servers, helping make better decisions about player-to-server matching and game session placement. The beacon endpoints are available in all AWS Global Regions and Local Zones supported by Amazon GameLift Servers, except AWS China, and through the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/apireference/API_ListLocations.html, making it easy to programmatically access the endpoints. To learn more, visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/release-notes.html#release-notes-summary.  

Today, Amazon GameLift Streams launched two new capabilities to optimize performance and cost: Gen6 stream classes and enhanced autoscaling with warm buffer. The new Gen6 stream classes provide a wider range of price performance options, while autoscaling enables customers to dynamically manage capacity scaling.  The seven new Gen6 stream classes available today are based on EC2 G6 instances powered by NVIDIA L4 Tensor Core GPUs, which provide up to 2x higher performance over Gen4 stream classes. The pro and ultra stream class deliver improved performance for graphics-intensive AAA games, while the medium and small stream class offer cost-efficient options for casual games. The gen6n_small stream class is available at $0.16/hour in us-east-2.  The enhanced autoscaling capabilities provide automatic capacity management that scales provisioned capacity dynamically with demand, helping customers optimize utilization and stream start time for new players. Developers can use the new capacity controls (minimum, maximum, and target-idle capacity) to precisely manage their scaling needs.  New Gen6 stream classes are available in five AWS Regions: US West (Oregon), US East (Ohio), US East (N. Virginia), Europe (Frankfurt), and Asia Pacific (Tokyo). Improved autoscaling is available in all AWS Regions where Amazon GameLift Streams is offered. To learn more and get started, visit: AWS Docs: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/developerguide/configuration-options.html#configuration-options-stream-classes; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/developerguide/stream-groups.html#about-stream-capacity; API Reference Guide: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/apireference/API_CreateStreamGroup.html#API_CreateStreamGroup_RequestParameters; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftstreams/latest/apireference/API_LocationConfiguration.html for stream groups

We’re excited to introduce the Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper, an open-source tool that helps significantly reduce the time required for game developers to onboard their game servers. Developers told us they faced significant overhead integrating the Server SDK, including dependency management and custom code implementation. The Game Server Wrapper solves these challenges by eliminating the need for server SDK integration, making it easy to deploy game servers on Amazon GameLift Servers with zero code changes. The Game Server Wrapper supports game session management through built in default functions to start and stop game sessions, making it easy to test and iterate on game builds. Developers package their game server executable with the wrapper, create a Amazon GameLift Servers Build resource, upload the build to Amazon GameLift Servers, and start game sessions without modifying their game server code. While the wrapper simplifies onboarding, it does not support all Amazon GameLift Servers SDK functions. This includes all matchmaking and backfilling APIs for Amazon GameLift Server FlexMatch and capabilities for player session state management, which are not supported The Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper is best suited for developers evaluating Amazon GameLift Servers with minimal setup, or for production use cases requiring basic game session management. Please check out the Amazon GameLift Servers Game Server Wrapper code repository and the technical documentation to accelerate your Amazon GameLift Servers onboarding experience.

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched the addition of built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins. Built on OpenTelemetry, an open source framework, Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics enable game developers to generate, collect, and export critical client-side metrics for game-specific insights. With this release, Amazon GameLift Servers can now be configured to collect and publish telemetry metrics for game servers running on managed Amazon EC2 and container fleets. Customers can leverage both pre-defined metrics and custom metrics, publishing them to https://aws.amazon.com/prometheus/ or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/latest/developerguide/monitoring-cloudwatch.html. This data can be visualized through ready-to-use dashboards (via Amazon Managed Grafana or Amazon CloudWatch) to help game developers optimize resource utilization, improve player experience, and identify and resolve potential operational issues. Telemetry metrics are now available in all Amazon GameLift Servers https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/gamelift-regions.html, except AWS China. For more information on monitoring resources using telemetry metrics on Amazon GameLift Servers, please visit the https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/monitoring-gamelift-servers-metrics.html.

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched the addition of built-in telemetry metrics across all server SDKs and game engine plugins. Built on OpenTelemetry, an open source framework, Amazon GameLift Servers telemetry metrics enable game developers to generate, collect, and export critical client-side metrics for game-specific insights. With this release, Amazon GameLift Servers can now be configured to collect and publish telemetry metrics for game servers running on managed Amazon EC2 and container fleets. Customers can leverage both pre-defined metrics and custom metrics, publishing them to Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus or Amazon CloudWatch. This data can be visualized through ready-to-use dashboards (via Amazon Managed Grafana or Amazon CloudWatch) to help game developers optimize resource utilization, improve player experience, and identify and resolve potential operational issues. Telemetry metrics are now available in all Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. For more information on monitoring resources using telemetry metrics on Amazon GameLift Servers, please visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation.

Today, Amazon GameLift Servers launched new console capabilities that let you view and connect to individual fleet instances. The EC2 and Container Fleet Detail pages have a new Instances tab to see a list of instances associated with a fleet. For each instance, there is an instance details page that displays metadata in a human-readable format (data also available via Amazon GameLift Server APIs). From the list and detail views, you can invoke the connect button, open a modal, and launch AWS CloudShell to start an SSM session directly into that instance. These console improvements give hands-on tools to debug, inspect, and resolve issues faster. Instead of relying on external tooling or guesswork, directly investigate host performance, pull recent game server logs, or diagnose issues such as network configuration and instance health - all from within the Amazon GameLift Servers Console. This reduces turnaround time when troubleshooting and enhances visibility into what’s happening “under the hood” of a game server fleet. SSM in Console is available in Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. For more information, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation.

Amazon GameLift Servers now supports a new AWS Local Zone in Dallas, Texas (us-east-1-dfw-2). You can use this Local Zone to deploy GameLift Fleets with EC2 C6gn, C6i, C6in, M6g, M6i, M6in, M8g, and R6i instances. Local Zones place AWS services closer to major player population and IT centers where no AWS region exists. From the Amazon GameLift Servers Console, you can enable the Dallas Local Zone and add it to your fleets, just as you would with any other Region or Local Zone. With this launch, game studios can run latency-sensitive workloads such as real-time multiplayer gaming, responsive AR/VR experiences, and competitive tournaments closer to players in the Dallas metro area. Local Zones help deliver single-digit millisecond latency, giving players a smoother, more responsive experience by reducing network distance between your servers and players. For more information on AWS Local Zones, please see here. To see a complete list of supported regions and local zones for Amazon GameLift Servers, visit the Amazon GameLift Servers documentation. For pricing, please visit the Amazon GameLift Servers Instance Pricing page.