Consumer demand for more content has also required studios to onboard talent from around the world, who then require high-powered workstations, specialized software, and high-speed storage and networking. For example, a typical animated feature film now generates 730 terabytes of data and up to half a billion files, requiring more than 150 million core compute hours and coordination from hundreds of artists and engineers. This increased demand causes content production studios to over-provision their compute, networking, and storage infrastructure for peak capacity, which proves expensive, difficult to manage, and hard to scale. Increased consumer appetite for premium content and experiences has driven greater demand for compute-intensive rendering of visual effects and animations. To bring high-quality visual effects, animation, and creative content to life, studios historically have relied on local high-performance workstations connected to shared file storage systems over low-latency, on-premises networks. The ongoing pandemic has only made clearer the difficulties, and costs, that production studios encounter in their constant efforts to acquire, integrate, and manage high-end workstations, renderfarms, and storage system in a safe and secure manner. Here's a brief overview of the new service: Amazon Nimble Studio gives content production studios the ability to start with as few resources as needed, scale up those resources when rendering demands peak, and spin them back down once projects are completed. With Amazon Nimble Studio, customers can create a new content production studio in just a few hours creative talent has immediate access to high performance workstations powered by Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) G4dn instances with NVIDIA Graphical Processing Units (GPUs), shared file storage from Amazon FSx, and ultra-low latency streaming via the AWS global network. Acquired by Amazon in 2019, the platform has continued to fuel studio productions and now, in the wake of fundamental industry production shifts brought about by the pandemic, launches to the masses.

You can get started with the system by visiting Īmazon Nimble Studio brings to market the cloud-based production platform first announced by ex-DreamWorks Animation veterans Rex Grignon and Jason Schleifer in 2016 and formally released in fall 2018. The service requires no upfront fees or commitments customers pay only for the underlying AWS services used. Artists will have access to accelerated virtual workstations, high-speed storage, and scalable rendering across AWS’s global infrastructure so they can create content faster. Amazon Nimble Studio customers can easily onboard and collaborate with artists from anywhere in the world to produce content quickly and cost effectively. Amazon Web Services, (AWS) has announced the general availability of Amazon Nimble Studio, a new cloud-based service that enables customers to set up a content production studio in hours instead of weeks, with near limitless scalability and access to rendering on demand.

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