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How to use AWS free tier (or other AWS business deals) in PlayFab

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I get N free hours/$m in free hosting from Amazon/AWS (either through their free tier, or a custom arrangement). How can I use that in PlayFab?

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All PlayFab servers, including custom game servers we host for titles, are running in our AWS account, and Amazon isn't going to let us apply any credit/free CPU hours from someone else's AWS account.

But that said, we do provide a set of API calls you can use for external game server hosting (https://api.playfab.com/docs/tutorials/external-game-servers). That would be the way you could benefit from your own free AWS usage, for a title running in PlayFab.

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