GameMaker Is renting an Amazon gamelift server a good idea?

jakaloy

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I've made a multiplayer game server using Game Maker 2 and GML. I'm at a point now where the game is ready for the general audience, so I started looking into how to rent a server. The most simple/best solution I found is Amazon gamelift. This is basically Amazons service for running game servers. I read their FAQ and by the looks of it, I should be able to use if for server created in GM2. The service permits custom .exes that are created using engine written in c++ or c# (GM2 is in c++). On the contrary, I've also read on a thread that GM .exe files cannot be run in a headless environment (hardware without graphics as I understand). Is this true? Does anyone have any experience with gamelift or can recommend some other server service that would work?
 
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