Speed up game server development with Amazon GameLift Anywhere and the Amazon GameLift Agent
AWS for Games Blog
This article demonstrates how to speed up game server development using Amazon GameLift Anywhere and the Amazon GameLift Agent. It provides a video walkthrough for deploying and configuring this solution to enable faster iteration cycles when making changes to game server builds.
Specifically, the article covers:
- An overview of Amazon GameLift Anywhere and the Amazon GameLift Agent
- Steps to deploy the solution using AWS Management Console and AWS CloudShell
- How to update game server builds rapidly by uploading new versions to an S3 bucket and running a command
- Next steps for setting up an end-to-end development environment with client-side code and matchmaking
- Benefits of this approach, reducing deployment time from 20-40 minutes to under a minute
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