Crate aws_sdk_gamelift

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Amazon GameLift provides solutions for hosting session-based multiplayer game servers in the cloud, including tools for deploying, operating, and scaling game servers. Built on Amazon Web Services global computing infrastructure, GameLift helps you deliver high-performance, high-reliability, low-cost game servers while dynamically scaling your resource usage to meet player demand.

About Amazon GameLift solutions

Get more information on these Amazon GameLift solutions in the Amazon GameLift Developer Guide.

  • Amazon GameLift managed hosting – Amazon GameLift offers a fully managed service to set up and maintain computing machines for hosting, manage game session and player session life cycle, and handle security, storage, and performance tracking. You can use automatic scaling tools to balance player demand and hosting costs, configure your game session management to minimize player latency, and add FlexMatch for matchmaking.
  • Managed hosting with Realtime Servers – With Amazon GameLift Realtime Servers, you can quickly configure and set up ready-to-go game servers for your game. Realtime Servers provides a game server framework with core Amazon GameLift infrastructure already built in. Then use the full range of Amazon GameLift managed hosting features, including FlexMatch, for your game.
  • Amazon GameLift FleetIQ – Use Amazon GameLift FleetIQ as a standalone service while hosting your games using EC2 instances and Auto Scaling groups. Amazon GameLift FleetIQ provides optimizations for game hosting, including boosting the viability of low-cost Spot Instances gaming. For a complete solution, pair the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and FlexMatch standalone services.
  • Amazon GameLift FlexMatch – Add matchmaking to your game hosting solution. FlexMatch is a customizable matchmaking service for multiplayer games. Use FlexMatch as integrated with Amazon GameLift managed hosting or incorporate FlexMatch as a standalone service into your own hosting solution.

About this API Reference

This reference guide describes the low-level service API for Amazon GameLift. With each topic in this guide, you can find links to language-specific SDK guides and the Amazon Web Services CLI reference. Useful links:

§Getting Started

Examples are available for many services and operations, check out the examples folder in GitHub.

The SDK provides one crate per AWS service. You must add Tokio as a dependency within your Rust project to execute asynchronous code. To add aws-sdk-gamelift to your project, add the following to your Cargo.toml file:

[dependencies]
aws-config = { version = "1.1.7", features = ["behavior-version-latest"] }
aws-sdk-gamelift = "1.22.0"
tokio = { version = "1", features = ["full"] }

Then in code, a client can be created with the following:

use aws_sdk_gamelift as gamelift;

#[::tokio::main]
async fn main() -> Result<(), gamelift::Error> {
    let config = aws_config::load_from_env().await;
    let client = aws_sdk_gamelift::Client::new(&config);

    // ... make some calls with the client

    Ok(())
}

See the client documentation for information on what calls can be made, and the inputs and outputs for each of those calls.

§Using the SDK

Until the SDK is released, we will be adding information about using the SDK to the Developer Guide. Feel free to suggest additional sections for the guide by opening an issue and describing what you are trying to do.

§Getting Help

§Crate Organization

The entry point for most customers will be Client, which exposes one method for each API offered by Amazon GameLift. The return value of each of these methods is a “fluent builder”, where the different inputs for that API are added by builder-style function call chaining, followed by calling send() to get a Future that will result in either a successful output or a SdkError.

Some of these API inputs may be structs or enums to provide more complex structured information. These structs and enums live in types. There are some simpler types for representing data such as date times or binary blobs that live in primitives.

All types required to configure a client via the Config struct live in config.

The operation module has a submodule for every API, and in each submodule is the input, output, and error type for that API, as well as builders to construct each of those.

There is a top-level Error type that encompasses all the errors that the client can return. Any other error type can be converted to this Error type via the From trait.

The other modules within this crate are not required for normal usage.

Modules§

  • client
    Client for calling Amazon GameLift.
  • config
    Configuration for Amazon GameLift.
  • error
    Common errors and error handling utilities.
  • meta
    Information about this crate.
  • operation
    All operations that this crate can perform.
  • primitives
    Primitives such as Blob or DateTime used by other types.
  • types
    Data structures used by operation inputs/outputs.

Structs§

  • Client
    Client for Amazon GameLift
  • Config
    Configuration for a aws_sdk_gamelift service client.

Enums§

  • Error
    All possible error types for this service.