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Multi-region workflows for Flame on AWS using Hammerspace
Scaling storage globally Building out a multi-site studio has traditionally been a challenging task for companies and productions. Driven by the need to win additional projects, hire world-renowned talent, or capture location-specific incentives, companies inevitably confront the realities of large-capital expenditures, forecasting for maximum size, and onboarding a large quantity of local IT staff. As […]
Multi-Region Rendering with Deadline and Hammerspace
Over the past few years, Visual Effects (VFX) studios have gone more global by opening satellite studios or hiring artists working from home all around the world. Whether the reasons are location specific financial incentives, unlocking local talent, or co-locating with a production team, having a render farm in a single location is no longer […]
Introducing Autodesk Flame on AWS
Marking a major milestone for an application celebrating it’s 30th anniversary that was once only available on dedicated hardware, Autodesk has enabled Flame 2023 to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Autodesk ® Flame ® provides high-end 3D visual effects (VFX), finishing and color grading software used across advertising, and episodic and feature film VFX […]
Case Study: BurdaForward prevents overprovisioning and delivers cost transparency on AWS
Digital publisher BurdaForward, an arm of Hubert Burda Media, is an online publisher with 800 employees and locations in eight German cities. Its brands include the Focus Online News portal, Digital Tech Site Chip.de, Lifestyle Magazine Bunte.de and many others, reaching more than 21 million unique users each month. BurdaForward sought to update its infrastructure […]
Case Study: Discovery cuts playout cost by 61% and accelerates growth and innovation on AWS
Discovery, a global media company that delivers more than 8,000 hours of original programming in nearly 50 languages to 220 countries and territories each year, needed to innovate its playout system infrastructure. The cost and time required to upkeep the company’s on-premises software made it difficult to grow and innovate. Discovery reduced its on-premises server […]
“The Crown” in the cloud
How the award-winning in-house VFX team for Netflix’s monarchy drama completed 600 shots in eight months on AWS for Season 4 Since its 2016 debut, Netflix episodic drama “The Crown” has enraptured viewers with its take on key historical and cultural moments from the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. While visual effects have been […]
DeNA relies on Amazon IVS for end-to-end live stream management
Tokyo-based technology developer DeNA (pronounced DNA) aims to entertain and to serve through their businesses, under their mission to delight people beyond their wildest dreams. A pioneer in the Japanese live streaming market, DeNA’s Pococha social live streaming community excels at this, allowing users to easily view or capture and stream interactive, customizable live videos. […]
Case Study: Handling one million concurrent players with ease on AWS
Noor is the maker of Hadi, Turkey’s first live trivia mobile app that hosts live 15-minute trivia games multiple times per day. With as many as 400,000 game requests coming in at the same time, Noor needed more scalability than its current on-premises data center could offer. In 2020, Noor performed a lift and shift […]