Amazon GameLift publishes a sample script to illustrate how to update game server builds on Amazon GameLift managed fleets in production.

We are excited to announce the publishing of a sample script that illustrates how you can update game server builds that are deployed on Amazon GameLift managed EC2 fleets that are currently hosting live games. The sample script is available on the Amazon GameLift Toolkit repository. When game developers need to update their game server build without interrupting live sessions, they can modify and utilize this new sample script to accomplish that task. The script deploys the new game server, then utilizes Aliases to transition player traffic to game servers running the updated build.

The sample script contains code that handles the following operations:

• Uploading an updated game server build,
• Creating a new build and deploy to a new fleet,
• Redirecting player traffic from an existing fleet to the new fleet, and
• Deleting the old fleet.

You can also customize the sample script to meet your specific deployment requirements.

Visit the Amazon GameLift Toolkit repository in GitHub to get the production deployment sample script and learn more about how to use it.

Thank you,

Sachin Gupta | Sr. PM-T, Amazon GameLift