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# Peer-to-Peer Support (P2P)

Game Clients normally connect to one another via the coherence Cloud services, but it is also possible to connect Clients via 3rd party relays, such as  **Steam Networking**, **Epic Online Services** and **Azure PlayFab**. These relays are essential for the Game Clients to find one-another and maintain connectivity. As an additional bonus, you may get a significant reduction in lag.

This makes it easy for the players of your **coherence**-enabled game to host Replication Servers themselves, without using our cloud services.

For the particulars, see our [client-hosting](/1.2/coherence-sdk-for-unity/client-hosting.md) article.