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AWS provides the most comprehensive set of cloud capabilities for content production
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AWS is the leading cloud provider for production in the cloud, enabling both end-to-end content production and individual workflows including ingest, editing, VFX, rendering, color grading, finishing, quality control, delivery, and archive.
Accelerate productions with AWS and eliminate upfront infrastructure investments, supply chain constraints, and logistical challenges, so you can start quickly and scale up and down based on project requirements and production cycles.
Unlock remote production with an artist experience indistinguishable from on-premises — by providing highly performant, low-latency cloud workstations and resources, all leveraging the AWS global infrastructure for production-optimized cloud workflows.
AWS simplifies complex pipelines, removes technical obstacles, and enables artists to focus on creating great content by automating workflows in the cloud, accelerating time for creative iteration, and optimizing costs through elastic scalability.
Purpose-built solutions & services for Content Production
AWS services
Custom-built solutions
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AWS Deadline CloudAWS Deadline Cloud makes it easier to build a render farm without the need to manage backend infrastructure—with a simplified setup that reduces deployment from months to minutes.Learn more » -
Amazon FSxHigh-performance remote display protocol that provides customers with a secure way to deliver remote desktops and application streaming from any cloud or data center to any device, over varying network conditions.Learn more » -
Amazon DCVLaunch, run, and scale feature-rich and highly-performant file systems with just a few clicksLearn more »
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Modular Cloud Studio on AWSBuild a secure, scalable, and customizable content production studio in the cloud, with simplified deployment that reduces setup time from weeks to hours.Learn more » -
Guidance for Edit in the Cloud on AWSThis Guidance shows you how to deploy a cloud-based video editing workstation using an AWS CloudFormation template to automate your setup.Learn more »
Content Production customers
Avatar: The Way of Water Rendered on AWS by running 3.3 billion thread hours in eight months
Backed by the unmatched portfolio of services from AWS, Weta continues redefining what is possible on screen at a scale not previously seen.
Bardel Entertainment commits to expansion with AWS
DeadDrop Labs helped Bardel implement a multi-account AWS environment based on workstations and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), rendering, networking, and shared services.
AWS enables Outpost VFX to service new clients anywhere in the world in hours
Today, Outpost has five studios, having added a London location, all functioning as a single studio in the cloud, with all workstations and storage on AWS.
Netflix empowers remote workstations for artists
Netflix uses EC2 G5 instances on LAX Local Zone to achieve single-digit millisecond latency, empowering artists and content creators with virtual workstations.
Cinesite renders 'The Addams Family 2' with AWS
During the height of production, Cinesite scaled to 170K virtual CPUs (vCPUs) on AWS over the course of a three-week period.
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Content Production customers
Avatar: The Way of Water Rendered on AWS by running 3.3 billion thread hours in eight months
Backed by the unmatched portfolio of services from AWS, Weta continues redefining what is possible on screen at a scale not previously seen.
Bardel Entertainment commits to expansion with AWS
DeadDrop Labs helped Bardel implement a multi-account AWS environment based on workstations and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), rendering, networking, and shared services.
AWS enables Outpost VFX to service new clients anywhere in the world in hours
Today, Outpost has five studios, having added a London location, all functioning as a single studio in the cloud, with all workstations and storage on AWS.
Netflix empowers remote workstations for artists
Netflix uses EC2 G5 instances on LAX Local Zone to achieve single-digit millisecond latency, empowering artists and content creators with virtual workstations.
Cinesite renders 'The Addams Family 2' with AWS
During the height of production, Cinesite scaled to 170K virtual CPUs (vCPUs) on AWS over the course of a three-week period.
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AWS Partners for Content Production
Discover solutions from an extensive network of industry-leading AWS Partners who have demonstrated technical expertise and customer success in building M&E solutions on AWS.
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Accenture is a global professional services company that provides an end-to-end solution to migrate to and manage operations on AWS.
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Effortlessly scale and manage world-wide compute resources for demanding workflows.
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Integrated Media Technologies provides cloud-based solutions for creative minds.
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“Slalom’s experts bring a passion for enabling media and entertainment companies to accelerate and streamline the production and distribution of engaging content for their audiences on the screen of their choice, while developing ever-closer direct relationships with their customers by designing and deploying data-driven solutions leveraging AWS.”
- Steven Polster, Managing Director - Media & Entertainment, Slalom
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Personalized AWS consulting and modern S/W development; DevOps, serverless, containers, CI/CD, and more.
Consulting partners
AWS Consulting Partners help customers build customized solutions to meet their unique needs.
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AWS Marketplace
Media and entertainment solutions from AWS Partners are also available on AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog of third-party software, services, and data that makes it easy to find, buy, deploy, and manage software on AWS.
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DaVinci Resolve 17 Studio features revolutionary tools for editing, advanced color correction, Fusion VFX and Fairlight audio post, in a single software application.
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Teradici CAS delivers a secure, high-definition, uncompromised experience for remote desktops and workstations on Amazon GPU instances using the PCoIP protocol.
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pixitmedia provides software defined infrastructure to address the M&E industry's most demanding workflows.
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Stand up your creative studio in just a few hours using Amazon Nimble Studio. Start producing content faster and more cost-effectively while collaborating with your team of artists around the world.
See all AWS Marketplace offers for media and entertainment »
Content Production Resources
Content Production Blogs
- AWS launches a free digital learning plan for Content Production workloads
- Create a tile rendering job with modifications for AWS Deadline Cloud
- Unleash the power of AI rendering on AWS to save time and cost
- We build DCC integrations for render pipelines. Here’s how easy it was with AWS Deadline Cloud
- Sky accelerates innovation with new software-defined encoding platform built on AWS