Customer Challenge

QSC’s media production team was growing rapidly and was struggling to keep up with demand. To scale with their business, they wanted to invest in a studio in the cloud that would allow them to scale without the common limits of hardware. Triumph helped install a hybrid workload where artists could submit render jobs into the cloud via a remote workstation or from the office.

Proposed Solution and Architecture

To meet the necessary performance requirements, Triumph selected Deadline Thinkbox as the main render scheduling software and array of AWS managed services.
Triumph chose AWS to provide the resources required to fix the problem. We used Cloudformation to deploy all resources. This included:

• Directory Service
• FSx Storage
• AWS VPC
• AWS EC2 for Render Scheduler/License Server
• AWS Spot Fleets
• AWS Transit Gateway
• AWS CloudTrail
• AWS CloudWatch

Outcomes of Project & Success Metrics

The outcome of this project was determined by the ability of the QSC team to successfully render jobs with ease. After user testing, the required results were met.

Lessons Learned

Rendering in the cloud allows for elasticity and rapid growth compared to hybrid or on-prem render workloads.

First, Triumph Tech installed a Thinkbox Deadline monitor for Deadline. To perform rendering jobs, Triumph Tech included a VPN to allow artists on-premises to communicate privately with Thinkbox.

Summary Of Customer Environment

The customer used all native AWS managed services and leveraged a multi account structure for billing, governance, and security.