How the Arch Platform & AWS Deadline Cloud make for a user-friendly, fast, and cost efficient Render Farm experience.

AWS Deadline Cloud and the Arch Platform represent the future of cloud-native scalable render and compute.? Deadline Cloud is a major step forward for ease of scaling with usage-based licensing.? The primary new benefits include:

• Scale render nodes with more control and automation
• Spot instances are easier to use and can result in dramatic cost savings
• Scaling recommendation recognizes when it makes sense to scale and dovetails with auto-scale functionality
• Project budget features enhance your ability to balance and track costs
• Improved reporting capabilities (e.g. daily cost per project)
• User friendly with web based single-sign-on for artists
• Comprehensive support for Open Job Description so render jobs are portable and interoperable

Arch Platform Technologies supports AWS Deadline Cloud at launch and will continue to introduce new related features throughout 2024.? There are a number of important advantages to using AWS Deadline Cloud from within the Arch Platform:

• Deploy Deadline Cloud within any Arch Platform facility so teams have access to high performance cloud workstations, storage and render through a simple-to-use UI.??
• Configure render nodes quickly and easily however required when deploying jobs to spot or on-demand.? With Arch, any application workflow is supported beyond what comes standard with Deadline Cloud.?
• Without Arch, anything that is non-standard increases rapidly in complexity.? Arch currently supports 700+ applications for point and click simplicity, and it’s easy for the Arch team to add any new applications required.? These benefits dovetail with Arch’s advanced image pipeline to streamline support for any workflow.
• With Arch, all jobs deploy and start to render in seconds, saving time and money.
• The Arch Platform has fully embraced the Open Job Description specification and is integrating Deadline Cloud APIs to support analytics and reporting within the Arch Platform by the end of the year.? Have all your cloud workstation, storage and render farm analytics and reporting in one place.
• The Arch Platform integrates with SSO & SCIM with the option to use Active Directory, all in a Virtual Private Cloud(s).

Conclusion

The combination of AWS Deadline Cloud and the Arch Platform represent a powerhouse high performance cloud orchestration platform for all workstation, storage and rendering needs - with all the flexibility and performance required to manage to rapidly changing business needs.? Because resources are matched to real-time business requirements, Arch and AWS can be leveraged to operate with tremendous time savings, less IT resources, and lower total cost.