Accessing Your GameLift Instance

Thu, 20 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Prerequisites

AWS CLI
A GameLift fleet already created
Patience

This guide is assuming you’re on Windows as your main OS, but if you’re using Linux then the commands will be the same for AWS, but the system commands like changing the ssh key permission for Linux would be chmod 400 gameliftkey.pem.

Windows

Open Command Prompt (cmd) and type in aws gamelift describe-instances --fleet-id <your-fleet-id>. Replace with your actual fleet id which you can find here.
Now in cmd run aws gamelift get-instance-access --fleet-id <your-fleet-id> --instance-id <your-instance-id>. Again replace the contents in with the details from the command above.
Excellent, now you can log into your instance. Open Remote Desktop Connection (RDP) on Windows (Windows key and type in RDP). Log in with the details from the command above.
To access your game go to C:\Game.

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Accessing Your GameLift Instance

Prerequisites

Windows