The cloud is increasingly the de facto choice for centralizing IT infrastructure across a wide range of businesses and industries. Offering benefits including cost savings, reduced CapEx, flexibility, and scalability, the cloud is becoming the first choice for hosting internal and customer-facing workloads. With collaboration and remote work becoming norms, the cloud makes it easy to provide workers with the processing and shared data necessary to be productive in a dispersed team environment.

Autodesk has certified AMD-powered Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G4ad instances for use with one of its popular Media & Entertainment software. Certification gives game developers, visual effects artists and visualization professionals looking to take advantage of the power and flexibility of cloud-based workflows the assurance that key art tools will run as reliably on virtual workstations as they do on local machines and will receive the same level of vendor support.

Amazon EC2 G4ad Instances certified for Autodesk® Inventor®

Cloud-based and hybrid-cloud models are critical to evolving enterprise IT infrastructure, to support growth for on-premise and remote staff. Virtual Workstations delivered via the cloud make it possible for employees to be productive anywhere. Accessing critical digital tools and data using almost any device, staff can work as effectively from the office or remotely., One notable exception has been workers who require high-performance, graphics-accelerated workstations that power demanding 3D workloads such as product design and manufacturing.

Game developers looking to adopt the latest cloud-based workflows now have a powerful new option when shifting their production pipelines online: AMD based Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G4ad instances.

Consumers want great gaming experiences that look fantastic, run smoothly, and are ready to go whenever the urge to play strikes. Game developers want to oblige them, delivering compelling, innovative, and, crucially, frictionless gaming experiences to engage as many players as possible.

 Streaming games from the cloud is poised to be the next dramatic evolution in the dynamics of the gaming world. The shift to the cloud promises to significantly change how both parties achieve their goals within a worldwide gaming. New cloud services from popular cloud service providers (CSPs) and game manufactures, and other bellwethers of the gaming world have changed the conversation about games consumption and delivery.

Today’s business needs to provide its workforce with access to critical digital tools and data no matter where in the world people are at any time. Cloud-based, virtual machines make it possible for staff to be productive, at their desk, down the hall, working remotely, or at home, using almost any convenient device. Events of the past year turned such flexibility from a goal into what is now becoming the norm across many industries. 

That is with one significant exception: the computationally demanding requirements of workflows such as games development, engineering design, and real-time visualization that typically rely on high-performance workstations have presented significant challenges in terms of capability and feasibility. That is where the new Amazon EC2 G4ad instances come in. 

Game studios constantly strive to attain a balance between competing forces: technology and art, speed and quality, and the peaks and valleys of staffing needs throughout a project. With the pressures of launch day deadlines and high player expectations always looming, business success is dictated by one’s ability to deliver the best gaming experience while managing costs throughout a game’s entire lifecycle.

Last year, Amazon introduced G4ad, its latest graphics-accelerated instances for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). G4ad strikes an optimal balance between cost and no-compromise performance. Powered by 2nd Gen AMD EPYCTM CPUs and AMD RadeonTM Pro V520 GPUs built on the latest 7nm “Zen 2” and AMD RDNA™ architectures respectively, G4ad accelerates highly demanding applications and the latest game development engines in the cloud while offering a better price to performance.