AWS unveils new service for cloud-based rendering projects
On Tuesday Amazon launched a new service called Deadline Cloud that lets customers set up
deploy and scale up graphics and visual effects rendering pipelines on AWS cloud infrastructure
The new service, which is geared toward the media and entertainment industry, was timed for the National Association of Broadcasters conference in Las Vegas that kicks off later this month.
A startup wizard in Deadline Cloud walks customers through the process of setting up a render farm
Deadline Cloud then provisions Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud instances and manages the network and compute infrastructure
Deadline Cloud’s dashboard provides a view to analyze logs, preview in-progress render jobs and review and control costs
Cloud-based rendering is nothing new. Back in 2015, Google made a splash in the space with the acquisition of Zync
whose technology has since been used to launch Google Cloud–powered visual effects tooling in partnership with Sony’s animation studio
As Passemard alluded to, the rise of generative AI has fueled the demand for rendering hardware, too, and has led to the creation of entirely new cloud-based, GPU-accelerated providers.
Elsewhere, platforms like Arch and Chaos Cloud have provided on-demand cloud-based VFX infrastructure for years.