Windows Server 2012 with NVIDIA GRID GPU Driver
NVIDIA | 1.3Windows, Windows Server 2012 6.2 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
If you are looking to stream a game with this AMI this is not for you.
There is no sound driver (so no output) and the GPU driver is not installed automatically. Besides being quick to get launched it stops there. Back to OTOY AMI.
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Product is OK; documentation is a bit lacking
GPUs don't show up under RDP! This should be front and center in every description of this product. The AMI does not come with a VNC server installed, which is an odd choice, because to do anything with the GPU you first have to install a VNC server, disconnect from RDP, and connect with VNC. Amazon: please just roll a VNC server into the AMI and clarify the documentation.
Interest and perspective but problematic
G2 instance is a great and probably best on-demand hour-rate GPU server offer on the market but it have two serious problems.
First of all, RDP instance access significally reduce all benefits that G2 instance offers. It is unable to start any application that uses GPU directly or through OpenGL/DirectX in RDP session. Setup VNC instance access is complicated.
TeamViewer mostly solves this problem but it has its own limitations.
And second there is a problem with running applications that based on shader model 3 or shader model 4. This applications succesfully run on GeForce GTX 6xx-like hardware (also with shader model 5.0) but crashes when running on G2 instance with "unable to obtain shader API access" reason.
All this makes G2 instance using problematic for us.