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AWS gameliftservers documentation change

Service: gameliftservers · 2026-04-04 · Documentation low

File: gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/queue-events.md

Summary

Updated event documentation to clarify region vs. location and added new 'computeName' field to identify compute resources hosting game sessions.

Security assessment

Changes improve operational clarity by distinguishing between a fleet's home region and the actual game session location, and by adding a compute identifier. This aids in monitoring and management but does not directly address a security vulnerability or introduce security features. The example JSON update reflects these new fields.

Diff

diff --git a/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/queue-events.md b/gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/queue-events.md
index 91ec2a8f7..93055d92e 100644
--- a//gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/queue-events.md
+++ b//gameliftservers/latest/developerguide/queue-events.md
@@ -107 +107,6 @@ gameSessionRegion
-AWS Region of the fleet that is hosting the game session. This corresponds to the region token in the `GameSessionArn`. 
+AWS Home region of the fleet that is hosting the game session. 
+
+gameSessionLocation
+    
+
+The fleet location where the game session is running. This value might specify the fleet's home region or a remote location. 
@@ -122,0 +128,5 @@ Possible values include:
+computeName
+    
+
+A descriptive label for the compute resource that is hosting the game session. For EC2 fleets, this is the EC2 instance ID. For Container fleets, each game server container group on a fleet instance is assigned a compute name. For Anywhere fleets, this is the custom compute name.
+
@@ -146 +156 @@ The collection of player sessions that have been created for each player in the
-        "gameSessionArn": "arn:aws:gamelift:us-west-2::gamesession/fleet-2222bbbb-33cc-44dd-55ee-6666ffff77aa/4444dddd-55ee-66ff-77aa-8888bbbb99cc",
+        "gameSessionArn": "arn:aws:gamelift:us-west-2::gamesession/fleet-2222bbbb-33cc-44dd-55ee-6666ffff77aa/us-east-1/4444dddd-55ee-66ff-77aa-8888bbbb99cc",
@@ -152,0 +163,2 @@ The collection of player sessions that have been created for each player in the
+        "gameSessionLocation": "us-east-1",
+        "computeName": "i-1234567890abcdef0",