Amazon GameLift · JSON Structure

Gamelift Game Server Instance Structure

This data type is used with the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and game server groups.

Additional properties, including status, that describe an EC2 instance in a game server group. Instance configurations are set with game server group properties (see DescribeGameServerGroup and with the EC2 launch template that was used when creating the game server group.

Retrieve game server instances for a game server group by calling DescribeGameServerInstances.

Type: object Properties: 4
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GameServerInstance is a JSON Structure definition published by Amazon GameLift, describing 4 properties. It conforms to the https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/# meta-schema.

Properties

GameServerGroupName GameServerGroupArn InstanceId InstanceStatus

Meta-schema: https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#

JSON Structure

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{
  "$schema": "https://json-structure.org/meta/core/v0/#",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/amazon-gamelift/refs/heads/main/json-structure/gamelift-game-server-instance-structure.json",
  "name": "GameServerInstance",
  "description": "<p> <b>This data type is used with the Amazon GameLift FleetIQ and game server groups.</b> </p> <p> Additional properties, including status, that describe an EC2 instance in a game server group. Instance configurations are set with game server group properties (see <code>DescribeGameServerGroup</code> and with the EC2 launch template that was used when creating the game server group. </p> <p>Retrieve game server instances for a game server group by calling <code>DescribeGameServerInstances</code>. </p>",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "GameServerGroupName": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/GameServerGroupName"
        },
        {
          "description": "A developer-defined identifier for the game server group that includes the game server instance. The name is unique for each Region in each Amazon Web Services account."
        }
      ]
    },
    "GameServerGroupArn": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/GameServerGroupArn"
        },
        {
          "description": "A generated unique identifier for the game server group that includes the game server instance. "
        }
      ]
    },
    "InstanceId": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/GameServerInstanceId"
        },
        {
          "description": "The unique identifier for the instance where the game server is running. This ID is available in the instance metadata. EC2 instance IDs use a 17-character format, for example: <code>i-1234567890abcdef0</code>."
        }
      ]
    },
    "InstanceStatus": {
      "allOf": [
        {
          "$ref": "#/components/schemas/GameServerInstanceStatus"
        },
        {
          "description": "Current status of the game server instance"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

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