Customer Stories / Media & Entertainment
2020
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How Sony Interactive Entertainment renders with AWS
In this AWS re:Invent session, Ashgar Nisar, cloud infrastructure project manager Asghar Nisar and engineer Andy Taylor share how SIE is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS.
Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) Worldwide Studios is a diverse network of highly successful and passionate game development studios and support functions, responsible for creating some of the world’s most well-known PlayStation games. In this session, SIE Cloud Infrastructure Project Manager Asghar Nisar and Engineer Andy Taylor share how SIE is modernizing its existing infrastructure to remotely render visual images and effects using AWS. See how AWS Thinkbox Deadline Amazon EC2 G4 and P3dn graphics instances can be used to assist artists in spending more time iterating on creative work rather than waiting for rendering workloads to complete.
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We now have the capability to render in the cloud and are focused on continuous service improvement and wider adoption in the business, which includes improved cost tracking and predictability, for better cost modeling and chargeback, a self-service utility, meaning an on-demand platform, service shared by multiple teams. And finally, our new vision, cloud all in which is to contain the end-to-end production workflow in the cloud."
Asghar Nisar
Project Manager, Worldwide Studios IT
AWS Services Used
AWS Thinkbox Deadline
Scalable and flexible compute render management
Amazon EC2 G4 Instances
The industry’s most cost-effective GPU instances for machine learning inference and graphics-intensive applications
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