Create an AMS account
Overview
This page walks you through activating the AccelByte Multiplayer Servers (AMS) add-on in your namespace and creating an AMS account.
For AGS Shared Cloud customers, refer to the AMS instance types and pricing page for more information about your free trial benefits related to AMS.
Prerequisites
- Access to the AccelByte Gaming Services (AGS) Admin Portal.
- In AGS Shared Cloud, an existing studio and a game namespace.
- In AGS Private Cloud, an existing publisher and a game namespace.
Activate AMS in your namespace
- AGS Shared Cloud
- AGS Private Cloud
Go to your studio namespace on the AGS Admin Portal.
On the homepage, go to the Add-ons section and click the Start Free trial button. A pop-up showing the AMS free trial limitations appears.
Click Start Free Trial. AMS is now activated in your studio and across your game namespaces. You can proceed to creating an AMS account.
As a Private Cloud customer, the AMS add-on can be enabled in your AGS environment by request. Contact your AccelByte Account Manager or submit an AMS activation request via the Accelbyte Customer Support Portal.
Create an AMS account
When an AMS account is created from a game namespace, the account is automatically linked to that namespace. AMS supports account linking across game namespaces to share resources such as server images, observability account and metrics, and a billing account. Refer to the Link your AMS account to your games page for more information.
- AGS Shared Cloud
- AGS Private Cloud
In Shared Cloud, you can only create one AMS account, which you can later on link to your other game namespaces.
To create an AMS account, follow these steps:
Go to your game namespace on the AGS Admin Portal.
On the sidebar, under the ADD-ONS menu, select AccelByte Multiplayer Servers. The AMS welcome page appears.
In the Set up AMS account section, type in a name for your AMS account.
Click Create, then click Yes on the pop-up. The details page of your AMS account appears.
After you create your AMS account, the full functionality and user interface for AMS will be enabled under the AccelByte Multiplayer Servers menu on the Admin Portal sidebar.
In AGS Private Cloud, you can link one AMS account across multiple namespaces as well as across multiple AGS environments. Using one AMS account per game lets you link that AMS account to your DEV and PROD environments so you only have to upload a dedicated server image build once, validate it in DEV, and deploy it in PROD without having to re-upload the dedicated server image multiple times.
Go to your game namespace on the AGS Admin Portal.
On the sidebar, under the ADD-ONS menu, select AccelByte Multiplayer Servers. The AMS welcome page appears.
In the Set up AMS account section, type in a name for your AMS account.
Click Create, then click Yes on the pop-up. The details page of your AMS account appears.
After you create your AMS account, the full functionality and user interface for AMS will be enabled under the AccelByte Multiplayer Servers menu on the Admin Portal sidebar.
If you have multiple AGS environments and/or multiple game namespaces, see Link game namespace to AMS account for how to link your AMS account to them.
What's next?
With an AMS account created, you can link it to your game namespaces to share resources between them. Proceed to the Link game namespace to AMS account page.