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Amazon GameLift Reviews & Product Details

Amazon GameLift is a fully managed service designed to deploy, operate, and scale dedicated game servers for session-based multiplayer games. Leveraging AWS's global infrastructure, GameLift ensures high-performance, low-latency gaming experiences for players worldwide. Key Features and Functionality: - Amazon GameLift Servers: This feature allows developers to deploy game servers in minutes, supporting up to 100 million concurrent players and 100,000 player additions per second. It offers predictive game server scaling, enterprise-grade security, and flexible matchmaking capabilities. - Amazon GameLift Streams: Enables game streaming at up to 1080p resolution and 60 frames per second to any device with a browser. Developers can deploy and stream game content without modifications, allowing players to start gaming instantly without waiting for installations. - Autoscaling: GameLift can launch thousands of game servers simultaneously and stop unused ones just as quickly. This dynamic scaling responds to player demand, ensuring optimal resource utilization and cost efficiency. - Global Coverage: With deployment capabilities across multiple AWS Regions and Local Zones, GameLift ensures low-latency experiences for players, regardless of their location. - Flexible Matchmaking: The FlexMatch feature connects and matches up to 200 players into a single game session based on custom matching rules defined by developers. Primary Value and Solutions Provided: Amazon GameLift addresses the challenges of deploying and managing multiplayer game servers by offering a scalable, secure, and cost-effective solution. It eliminates the complexities of server management, allowing developers to focus on game development and player engagement. By providing both server hosting and game streaming capabilities, GameLift enables developers to reach a broader audience, reduce latency issues, and optimize operational costs. This comprehensive service ensures that games can handle varying player demands seamlessly, delivering a consistent and enjoyable gaming experience.

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Amazon GameLift Reviews (27)

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gulshan d.

Salesforce developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/17/2025

"Amazon gamelift review"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

I love how Amazon GameLift makes it easy to scale multiplayer games. It handles server management and matchmaking, so I can focus more on game development and less on infrastructure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

It can be pricey for small developers, and the setup is a bit complex if you're new to server-based game hosting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon GameLift solving and how is that benefiting you?

Amazon GameLift solves the challenge of hosting, scaling, and managing multiplayer game servers. It automatically deploys and scales game servers based on player demand, handles matchmaking, and reduces latency by using global AWS infrastructure. This benefits me by saving time on server setup, ensuring smoother gameplay for users, and letting me focus more on improving the game Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abhishek M.

Technical Recruiter

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/23/2021

"Developers needs Amazon GameLift."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

If you are a Game Developer and you are trying to develop creative, So Amazon GameLift helps you manage to deploy, Operate. That is a low-cost server in the cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

Amazon GameLift works most multilayer game sessions that begin and end within a specified time period. Sometimes games goes to most intersting, It end suddenly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon GameLift:

All passionate Developer who is interested in the gaming world. Amazon GameLift is best for you to explore your skills, develop some multilayer games by the help of Amazon GameLift. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon GameLift solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am not solving any problem here. I am improving my tech skills, getting the most creative, deploying game servers easily, and running Amazon Linux and Windows servers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Basudev K.

Associate Consultant

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/22/2022

"Amazing app for fun"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

Best thing is server scaling and low latency server,the devlopers need not to worry about their games in cloud as it's automatic scaling during peak ours take over everything. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

I chooses AWS server for cost effectiveness but its price is little in the higher end.and require dedicated and experienced devops team to migrate to AWS server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rawa A.

iOS Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/4/2022

"Gamelift is AWSome!!"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

Gamelift is awesome, Gamelift Fleets scale per session, It helps you minimize costs, and have state-of-the-art latency! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

I don't dislike anything about Gamelift, There can be several suggestions towards improvement Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

NIKHIL C.

SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIST

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/25/2021

"reviewing Amazon GameLift service"

3/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

I like the overall service, but the best parts would be the low latency and low price, high quality gameplay flexibility of using any tech stack Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

nothing primarily as of now, I have liked it but if tracking the server usage can be much more user friendly then it would be great Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon GameLift:

just create a free-trial account and try all the features and then decide if it suits your business requirements Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon GameLift solving and how is that benefiting you?

GameLift helps with excellent server management with zero downtime and also special feature being an amazon member. It's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vivek Govind G.

WMS consultant

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/23/2021

"Awesome product"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

Scales well with cloud severs for multiple games Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

Pricing could be lower compared to the competition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Games

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/28/2021

"Great abstractions"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

Making games is hard, especially games with a network component. Amazon GameLift provides excellent abstractions to make the process much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

I haven't found anything that I dislike yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/2/2021

"An awesome game server hosting solutions"

4/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

The large amount of server capacity to ensure the online state of servers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

Nothing as of now. Need more exploration to comment Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

lsommer S.

B.A.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/29/2019

"Amazon GameLift is a great choice for game server hosting. "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

Amazon's Gamelift provides the highest quality game server hosting experience via dedicated gaming server infrastructure. Gamelife enables the highest quality of gameplay, while saving up to 70% in

compute costs compared to colocation solutions with autoscaling and spot instances. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

The interface for tracking server usage could be smoother. Their analysis tools do show you that the specific size server you selected is providing server needs at minimal cost, but the more expensive option (which Amazon markets heavily), is not necessary for average developers such as myself

ight-size your services to meet capacity needs at the lowest cost. You can save more money by reserving in advance but for most of developers, that may not be possible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jennifer C.

Animal Care Tech.

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/29/2019

"Awesome!"

5/5

What do you like best about Amazon GameLift?

I love the Amazon Gamelift program offers a way to quickly save your games on the cloud in an easy file. I like that it's easy to use and get started it gives me more time to be able to create enough space to be able to use this on a daily basis with no problems. I think that its one of the best programs out there. I was able to try it for free before paying for it so, I think it keeps the questions about the program answered by being able to try it first. I would love to see an updated version but, I really love where this program is going and think its here to stay to save time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Amazon GameLift?

I would love to see a better pricing method since, it charges are a little bit high but, other than that its a great program! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Amazon GameLift:

I would recommend others to try this in their business on a trial basis to see if it implents the information needed for their needs of the company and little bit costly would like to see a better priced option for this progam. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Amazon GameLift solving and how is that benefiting you?

The benefits I'm coming to realize I can solve with this program are to be able get things saved in the cloud and not having to spend a lot of energy and time on what program is the best to be able to have an easy, reliable and fast speed program to save it on. I love the amount of space available for this program! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.