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.DescribeInstances 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 information about a fleet's instances, including instance IDs, connection data, and status.

This operation can be used in the following ways:

Use the pagination parameters to retrieve results as a set of sequential pages.

If successful, an Instance object is returned for each requested instance. Instances are not returned in any particular order.

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responses: '200': description: Success content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeInstancesOutput' examples: DescribeInstances200Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 200 response x-microcks-default: true value: Instances: example-value NextToken: example-value '480': description: UnauthorizedException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnauthorizedException' examples: DescribeInstances480Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 480 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '481': description: InvalidRequestException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InvalidRequestException' examples: DescribeInstances481Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 481 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '482': description: NotFoundException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/NotFoundException' examples: DescribeInstances482Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 482 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '483': description: InternalServiceException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/InternalServiceException' examples: DescribeInstances483Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 483 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value '484': description: UnsupportedRegionException content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/UnsupportedRegionException' examples: DescribeInstances484Example: summary: Default DescribeInstances 484 response x-microcks-default: true value: example-value requestBody: required: true content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/DescribeInstancesInput' parameters: - name: Limit in: query schema: type: string description: Pagination limit required: false - name: NextToken in: query schema: type: string description: Pagination token required: false - name: X-Amz-Target in: header required: true schema: type: string enum: - GameLift.DescribeInstances summary: Amazon GameLift Describe Instances x-microcks-operation: delay: 0 dispatcher: FALLBACK tags: - '#X Amz Target=GameLift.DescribeInstances' components: schemas: DescribeInstancesInput: type: object required: - FleetId title: DescribeInstancesInput properties: FleetId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FleetIdOrArn' - description: A unique identifier for the fleet to retrieve instance information for. You can use either the fleet ID or ARN value. InstanceId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InstanceId' - description: A unique identifier for an instance to retrieve. Specify an instance ID or leave blank to retrieve all instances in the fleet. Limit: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PositiveInteger' - description: The maximum number of results to return. Use this parameter with NextToken to get results as a set of sequential pages. NextToken: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NonZeroAndMaxString' - description: A token that indicates the start of the next sequential page of results. Use the token that is returned with a previous call to this operation. To start at the beginning of the result set, do not specify a value. Location: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationStringModel' - description: 'The name of a location to retrieve instance information for, in the form of an Amazon Web Services Region code such as us-west-2. ' NonZeroAndMaxString: type: string minLength: 1 maxLength: 1024 FleetId: type: string pattern: ^fleet-\S+ InternalServiceException: {} FleetArn: type: string pattern: ^arn:.*:fleet\/fleet-\S+ InstanceStatus: type: string enum: - PENDING - ACTIVE - TERMINATING IpAddress: type: string pattern: ^[0-9A-Fa-f\:\.]+ minLength: 1 maxLength: 128 DescribeInstancesOutput: type: object properties: Instances: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InstanceList' - description: A collection of objects containing properties for each instance returned. NextToken: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/NonZeroAndMaxString' - description: A token that indicates where to resume retrieving results on the next call to this operation. If no token is returned, these results represent the end of the list. Instance: type: object properties: FleetId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FleetId' - description: A unique identifier for the fleet that the instance is in. FleetArn: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/FleetArn' - description: The Amazon Resource Name (ARN) that is assigned to a Amazon GameLift fleet resource and uniquely identifies it. ARNs are unique across all Regions. Format is arn:aws:gamelift:<region>::fleet/fleet-a1234567-b8c9-0d1e-2fa3-b45c6d7e8912. InstanceId: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InstanceId' - description: A unique identifier for the instance. IpAddress: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/IpAddress' - description: IP address that is assigned to the instance. DnsName: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DnsName' - description: '

The DNS identifier assigned to the instance that is running the game session. Values have the following format:

When connecting to a game session that is running on a TLS-enabled fleet, you must use the DNS name, not the IP address.

' OperatingSystem: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/OperatingSystem' - description: 'Operating system that is running on this instance. ' Type: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/EC2InstanceType' - description: 'Amazon EC2 instance type that defines the computing resources of this instance. ' Status: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/InstanceStatus' - description:

Current status of the instance. Possible statuses include the following:

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"). Location: allOf: - $ref: '#/components/schemas/LocationStringModel' - description: 'The fleet location of the instance, expressed as an Amazon Web Services Region code, such as us-west-2. ' description:

Represents an EC2 instance of virtual computing resources that hosts one or more game servers. In Amazon GameLift, a fleet can contain zero or more instances.

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FleetIdOrArn: type: string pattern: ^fleet-\S+|^arn:.*:fleet\/fleet-\S+ InstanceList: type: array items: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Instance' InvalidRequestException: {} DnsName: type: string InstanceId: type: string pattern: '[a-zA-Z0-9\.-]+' NotFoundException: {} EC2InstanceType: type: string enum: - t2.micro - t2.small - t2.medium - t2.large - c3.large - c3.xlarge - c3.2xlarge - c3.4xlarge - c3.8xlarge - c4.large - c4.xlarge - c4.2xlarge - c4.4xlarge - c4.8xlarge - c5.large - c5.xlarge - c5.2xlarge - c5.4xlarge - c5.9xlarge - c5.12xlarge - c5.18xlarge - c5.24xlarge - c5a.large - c5a.xlarge - c5a.2xlarge - c5a.4xlarge - c5a.8xlarge - c5a.12xlarge - c5a.16xlarge - c5a.24xlarge - r3.large - r3.xlarge - r3.2xlarge - r3.4xlarge - r3.8xlarge - r4.large - r4.xlarge - r4.2xlarge - r4.4xlarge - r4.8xlarge - r4.16xlarge - r5.large - r5.xlarge - r5.2xlarge - r5.4xlarge - r5.8xlarge - r5.12xlarge - r5.16xlarge - r5.24xlarge - r5a.large - r5a.xlarge - r5a.2xlarge - r5a.4xlarge - r5a.8xlarge - r5a.12xlarge - r5a.16xlarge - r5a.24xlarge - m3.medium - m3.large - m3.xlarge - m3.2xlarge - m4.large - m4.xlarge - m4.2xlarge - m4.4xlarge - m4.10xlarge - m5.large - m5.xlarge - m5.2xlarge - m5.4xlarge - m5.8xlarge - m5.12xlarge - m5.16xlarge - m5.24xlarge - m5a.large - m5a.xlarge - m5a.2xlarge - m5a.4xlarge - m5a.8xlarge - m5a.12xlarge - m5a.16xlarge - m5a.24xlarge - c5d.large - c5d.xlarge - c5d.2xlarge - c5d.4xlarge - c5d.9xlarge - c5d.12xlarge - c5d.18xlarge - c5d.24xlarge - c6a.large - c6a.xlarge - c6a.2xlarge - c6a.4xlarge - c6a.8xlarge - c6a.12xlarge - c6a.16xlarge - c6a.24xlarge - c6i.large - c6i.xlarge - c6i.2xlarge - c6i.4xlarge - c6i.8xlarge - c6i.12xlarge - c6i.16xlarge - c6i.24xlarge - r5d.large - r5d.xlarge - r5d.2xlarge - r5d.4xlarge - r5d.8xlarge - r5d.12xlarge - r5d.16xlarge - r5d.24xlarge UnauthorizedException: {} Timestamp: type: string format: date-time LocationStringModel: type: string pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9\-]+ minLength: 1 maxLength: 64 OperatingSystem: type: string enum: - WINDOWS_2012 - AMAZON_LINUX - AMAZON_LINUX_2 - WINDOWS_2016 PositiveInteger: type: integer minimum: 1 UnsupportedRegionException: {} 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