AWS for Media & Entertainment

NAB SHOW 2024 Demo Showcase

Content Production

Deadline Cloud

On-premises render farms are complex to manage, have high upfront costs, and are sized for expected peak requirements, often leading to unexpected long render queues that threaten delivery deadlines. With AWS Deadline Cloud, content creators using industry-standard applications like Nuke or Houdini can seamlessly run render jobs at the exact scale their project needs, paying only for the resources they use. Deadline Cloud provides a web-based portal, log analysis, and in-progress render previews, empowering VFX artists and animators with a comprehensive cloud rendering solution that removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting of managing a render farm.

Architecture

VFX and AWS Deadline Cloud
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Watch the NAB 24 demonstrations built with AWS for Media services. The demos presented on this website showcase some of the use cases for purpose built AWS solutions and services.

Disclaimer

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