Jon Landau, Academy Award-winning producer, and David Conley of Wētā FX join AWS at re:Invent

This week at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, Academy Award-winning producer Jon Landau and the Executive VFX producer at Wētā FX, David Conley, joined Amazon Web Services (AWS) to discuss “Emerging Tech Trends in the Entertainment Industry”. Panelists from AWS included Gretchen Libby, Director of Visual Compute, Nina Walsh, Media & Entertainment Business Development Leader, and Marc Aldrich, General Manager of Media & Entertainment.

The panel explored how the scalability, flexibility and security offered by AWS help filmmakers render and produce their projects in the cloud, while connecting artists virtually all around the globe.

“The difference when we went to the cloud was truly palpable and we would not have finished [Avatar: The Way of Water] without the support of AWS.” — Jon Landau

“In 14 months, we saw our first frame and then in eight months we had 3.3 billion thread hours in the cloud.” — David Conley