openapi: 3.0.0 info: version: 2015-10-01 x-release: v4 title: 'Amazon GameLift #X Amz Target=GameLift.AcceptMatch #X Amz Target=GameLift.AcceptMatch #X Amz Target=GameLift.DescribeAlias API' description:
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:
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To get alias properties, specify the alias ID. If successful, the requested alias record is returned.
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responses: '200': description: Success content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeAliasOutput' examples: DescribeAlias200Example: summary: Default DescribeAlias 200 response x-microcks-default: true value: Alias: example-value '480': description: UnauthorizedException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedException' examples: DescribeAlias480Example: summary: Default DescribeAlias 480 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '481': description: InvalidRequestException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidRequestException' examples: DescribeAlias481Example: summary: Default DescribeAlias 481 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '482': description: NotFoundException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundException' examples: DescribeAlias482Example: summary: Default DescribeAlias 482 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '483': description: InternalServiceException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceException' examples: DescribeAlias483Example: summary: Default DescribeAlias 483 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeAliasInput' parameters: - name: X-Amz-Target in: header required: true schema: type: string enum: - GameLift.DescribeAlias summary: Amazon GameLift Describe Alias x-microcks-operation: delay: 0 dispatcher: FALLBACK tags: - '#X Amz Target=GameLift.DescribeAlias' components: schemas: FleetId: type: string pattern: ^fleet-\S+ InternalServiceException: {} FreeText: type: string DescribeAliasOutput: type: object properties: Alias: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/Alias' - description: The requested alias resource. Alias: type: object properties: AliasId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/AliasId' - description: A unique identifier for the alias. Alias IDs are unique within a Region. Name: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NonBlankAndLengthConstraintString' - description: A descriptive label that is associated with an alias. Alias names do not need to be unique. AliasArn: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/AliasArn' - description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that is assigned to a Amazon GameLift alias resource and uniquely identifies it. ARNs are unique across all Regions. Format isarn:aws:gamelift:<region>::alias/alias-a1234567-b8c9-0d1e-2fa3-b45c6d7e8912. In a GameLift alias ARN, the resource ID matches the alias ID value.
Description:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/FreeText'
- description: A human-readable description of an alias.
RoutingStrategy:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/RoutingStrategy'
- description: 'The routing configuration, including routing type and fleet target, for the alias. '
CreationTime:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
- description: A time stamp indicating when this data object was created. Format is a number expressed in Unix time as milliseconds (for example "1469498468.057").
LastUpdatedTime:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/Timestamp'
- description: The time that this data object was last modified. Format is a number expressed in Unix time as milliseconds (for example "1469498468.057").
description: Properties that describe an alias resource.
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AliasArn: type: string pattern: ^arn:.*:alias\/alias-\S+ InvalidRequestException: {} AliasIdOrArn: type: string pattern: ^alias-\S+|^arn:.*:alias\/alias-\S+ NotFoundException: {} AliasId: type: string pattern: ^alias-\S+ DescribeAliasInput: type: object required: - AliasId title: DescribeAliasInput properties: AliasId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/AliasIdOrArn' - description: 'The unique identifier for the fleet alias that you want to retrieve. You can use either the alias ID or ARN value. ' UnauthorizedException: {} Timestamp: type: string format: date-time RoutingStrategy: type: object properties: Type: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RoutingStrategyType' - description:The type of routing strategy for the alias.
Possible routing types include the following:
SIMPLE - The alias resolves to one specific fleet. Use this type when routing to active fleets.
TERMINAL - The alias does not resolve to a fleet but instead can be used to display a message to the user. A terminal alias throws a TerminalRoutingStrategyException with the message embedded.
The routing configuration for a fleet alias.
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RoutingStrategyType: type: string enum: - SIMPLE - TERMINAL NonBlankAndLengthConstraintString: type: string pattern: .*\S.* minLength: 1 maxLength: 1024 parameters: X-Amz-Date: name: X-Amz-Date in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-SignedHeaders: name: X-Amz-SignedHeaders in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-Credential: name: X-Amz-Credential in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-Content-Sha256: name: X-Amz-Content-Sha256 in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-Algorithm: name: X-Amz-Algorithm in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-Signature: name: X-Amz-Signature in: header schema: type: string required: false X-Amz-Security-Token: name: X-Amz-Security-Token in: header schema: type: string required: false securitySchemes: hmac: type: apiKey name: Authorization in: header description: Amazon Signature authorization v4 x-amazon-apigateway-authtype: awsSigv4 externalDocs: description: Amazon Web Services documentation url: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/gamelift/ x-hasEquivalentPaths: true