Overview
NICE DCV is a high performance remote streaming protocol that enables user to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.
NICE DCV offers end users a wide range of client devices, including an HTML5 client for web browser access, and native clients for Windows, Linux, and MacOS operating systems. Native clients support up to 4 monitors at 4K resolution each and the Windows client also supports USB redirection for 3D mice and USB storage devices. In addition, NICE DCV helps customers with remote Linux desktops to reduce session costs by supporting multiple Linux sessions from a single high performance server.
On AWS, NICE DCV provides the streaming protocol used by Amazon Appstream 2.0 and AWS RoboMaker. There is no additional charge to use NICE DCV on Amazon EC2. You only pay for the EC2 resources you create to run and store your workloads.
Highlights
- Performance: Responsive and secure streaming experience allowing customers to run graphics intensive applications remotely removing the need for expensive dedicated workstations or transferring large amounts of data.
- Flexibility: Multi-OS compatibility and browser based remote access provides service builders a stable and flexible protocol for streaming applications with support for both cloud and on-premise usage.
- Security: Streams pixels and not geometries to ensure customer data privacy. In addition, DCV secures both pixels and end-user inputs using WebSocket and TLS encryption.
Details
Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
There is no additional charge to use DCV on Amazon EC2. You only pay for the EC2 resources you create to run and store your workloads.
Legal
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Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Additional details
Usage instructions
- Make sure the instance security groups allow inbound traffic to TCP port 8443.
- Make sure the instance has the role to access the license file. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/setting-up-license.html
- Connect to your remote machine with ssh -i
ec2-user@ a. Set the password for the ec2-user with sudo passwd ec2-user. This is the password you will use to log in DCV. b. create a DCV virtual session using command `dcv create-session https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/managing-sessions.html - Connect to your remote machine with the NICE DCV native client or web client using https://<public_dns>:8443.
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
AWS Support customers can open a support case with AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/ ).
Free support is available through forums (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=366 ) and technical documentation (https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/dcv/ ).
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
Works perfectly
Works perfectly. I was able to connect to the fsx file systems and run 3d software with very little setup work.
Great for test but not for long-term use
Actually nice for just tesing DCV feature/performance. Only takes 5 minutes or so until you enjoy DCV server.
But due to the version confilict of exiv2-libs(referenced by gnome-color-manager), you can never yum update.
So this image is not for long-term use at this moment (3. June 2020).