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.

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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Retrieves properties for an alias. This operation returns all alias metadata and settings. To get an alias's target fleet ID only, use ResolveAlias.

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 is arn: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:

FleetId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FleetId' - description: A unique identifier for the fleet that the alias points to. This value is the fleet ID, not the fleet ARN. Message: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FreeText' - description: The message text to be used with a terminal routing strategy. description:

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