Narrowing down storage configurations from the wide range of AWS offerings was done carefully. “The G4dn.8xl is our go to instance type, users say it really hits the sweet spot for performance and cost in Flame.” – Brian Sullivan, Director of Cloud Engineering | Assembly Network Bandwidth for Media CollaborationĬollaborating closely, AWS, Autodesk, and members of the charter program quickly identified that EC2 G5 and G4dn instance families, with their A10G and T4 GPUs from NVIDIA, large memory, vCPU count, and high bandwidth, made them the ideal choices for price and performance.Bandwidth of EBS Storage for local framestores.GPU Capabilities, including VRAM and Tensor Cores.With existing services like Amazon Nimble Studio or Studio in the Cloud virtual workstations using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, AWS knew that finding an outstanding solution for Flame would require the careful consideration of several key factors:
So, selecting the optimal mix of AWS services and architecture to achieve that high performance was critical to ensure an uncompromising experience on AWS.įlame joins a growing list of content creation workflows, such as editorial and VFX authoring, already present on AWS. “Now that Autodesk supports Flame on AWS, we can direct all of our Flame clients to supported configurations, in the cloud” – Tom Taylor, CEO | Gunpowder Flame, on demandįlame artists regularly conduct live working sessions with clients who need high-performance compute and storage to ensure a smooth and productive client experience. This built the foundation that allows Flame on AWS to be enabled by Autodesk. The Flame on AWS charter program provided a forum to exchange experiments, resolve bugs, and share overall experiences. Systems integrators like Gunpowder rounded out the effort by helping onboard additional studios that prefer to work with an AWS partner. This charter program included cloud-based companies, such as Untold Studios and Preymaker as well as remote work-friendly companies such as Carbon VFX and Assembly. A charter program of lighthouse customers was then formed to ensure that Flame on AWS would be a customer-led success. Studios can now modify underlying hardware configurations, adjusting and scaling elastically to suit the type of project and collaboration experience required.Īutodesk and AWS collaborated for the multi-year effort to define and unlock that ideal cloud experience for Flame.On AWS, artists can quickly iterate and test new, flexible workgroup configurations distributed services in Flame such as Project Server and Autodesk Backburner.Artists can now embrace remote work with ease, using Flame anywhere an internet connection of suitable bandwidth allows.Artists can now use their single user subscriptions to enable an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model for their high-end workstations, rather than incurring up-front costs for hardware.
Looking towards the future, Autodesk recognized that a cloud-based solution could provide new, valuable options for their users:
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Marking a major milestone for an application celebrating it’s 30th anniversary that was once only available on dedicated hardware, Autodesk has enabled Flame 2023 to run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).Īutodesk ® Flame ® provides high-end 3D visual effects (VFX), finishing and color grading software used across advertising, and episodic and feature film VFX projects, empowering editorial and compositing artists with cutting-edge tools.
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