MAE301: Boom for Your Buck: Rendering with Spot and Deadline on AWS

Learn how Amazon EC2 Spot and Thinkbox Deadline can make your VFX and CG renders explode off the screen, with minimal effort and low cost. This session focuses on rendering workloads combining Deadline (an AWS rendering pipeline management service), Thinkbox Marketplace usage-based licensing for flexible render licensing, and Spot for scalable low-cost computing. Learn how to seamlessly integrate your existing production pipeline, as well as advanced asset management, synchronization, and connections to other AWS services such as AWS storage and networking for advanced workflows, including the extension of on-premises render workflows into the cloud and all-in-cloud rendering pipelines. We also highlight a few real-world examples of customers with actual Hollywood productions.