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Nobody uses EC2 for this type of workload. The requirements to get any sort of real performance are far too specific. Dozens of companies exist that have massi
by dsl 12y ago
Nobody uses EC2 for this type of workload. The requirements to get any sort of real performance are far too specific.
Dozens of companies exist that have massive render farms and they rent them out to shops working on movies and commercials, but most of the major players have large dedicated in-house infrastructure.
- Rapzid 12y agoDisney probably would have had to mortgage the castle to afford rendering the movie on AWS.
- enos_feedler 12y agoZync (https://www.zyncrender.com/ https://www.zyncrender.com/) was offering this kind of service on AWS but recently acquired it. I think it will get folded into Google Compute Engine somehow.
- toomuchtodo 12y ago> Nobody uses EC2 for this type of workload. I don't understand how people make assumptions like this, unless they work at AWS at see the customer account info and real world workload data.
- leetrout 12y agoHoudini Cloud specifically uses AWS. http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_cloud&Itemid=213&page=faq http://www.sidefx.com/index.php?option=com_cloud&Itemid=213&...
- dsl 12y agoI think its usage is limited to students and very small shops. AFAIK they won't even let you spin up anything other than one or two instance sizes they kinda got working. The pricing was ridiculous, $6+/hr if I remember correctly.