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Amazon GameLift Servers expands instance support with next-generation EC2 instance families

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Amazon GameLift Servers now supports Amazon EC2 5th through 8th generation instances, offering enhanced price-performance, efficiency, and flexibility for game server hosting. This update allows developers to leverage the latest advancements in EC2 compute, memory, and networking across three main instance families: Each new EC2 generation brings significant improvements: Customers can also choose variants with local storage (d), enhanced networking (n), and different processor architectures (Intel, AMD, Graviton – i/a/g). This update empowers developers with greater flexibility, scalability, and cost efficiency to optimize game server performance. Customers can now seamlessly transition workloads to newer EC2 generations, leveraging AWS's continuous innovation for building, scaling, and operating multiplayer games globally. These next-generation instances are available in Amazon GameLift Servers supported regions, except AWS China. For more information on launching fleets with next-generation EC2 instances, visit the [Amazon GameLift Servers documentation](https://aws.amazon.com/gamelift/) and [EC2 Instance Types overview](https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/).