Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and Spot Instances Reduce Costs by up to 90%
Today, Amazon GameLift introduces FleetIQ and Spot instances. Spot instances offer customers access to spare AWS computing capacity at savings of up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices. You can achieve these savings while maintaining high game server availability with the use of FleetIQ, a new feature of Amazon GameLift Queues that places new sessions on game servers based on player latencies, instance prices, and Spot interruption rates.
Today, Amazon GameLift introduces FleetIQ and Spot instances. Spot instances offer customers access to spare AWS computing capacity at savings of up to 90% compared to On-Demand prices. You can achieve these savings while maintaining high game server availability with the use of FleetIQ, a new feature of Amazon GameLift Queues that places new sessions on game servers based on player latencies, instance prices, and Spot interruption rates.
Amazon GameLift is a dedicated game server hosting and matchmaking solution for games. It is available in 14 AWS regions and supports all major game engines including Amazon Lumberyard, Unreal Engine, Unity, and custom C++ and C# game engines. To learn more, please visit amazon.com/gamelift.
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