AWS for Media & Entertainment Content Production Workstation Requirements

This course describes the benefits, considerations, and best practices for building and migrating content production workstation workloads in the cloud.

• Course level: Fundamental
• Duration: 30 minutes

Activities

This course includes visuals, videos, and assessments.

Course objectives

In this course, you will learn to do the following:

• Describe the benefits and considerations of building content production workstations in the cloud.
• Familiarize yourself with the technical concepts of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).
• Compare and contrast graphics processing unit (GPU) and CPU needs for content production workstation workloads.
• Specify how to select Amazon EC2 instances that meet content production workstation requirements.
• Explain how to right size Amazon EC2 instances for creative projects.

Intended audience

This course is intended for the following job roles:

• Assistant editors (for example, on-set and post-production roles)
• Post coordinators
• Digital Imaging Technicians (DITs)
• System administrators
• Media and post-production engineers

Prerequisites

We recommend that attendees of this course have the following:

• AWS for Media & Entertainment Content Production Concepts and Roles
• AWS for Media & Entertainment Content Production Post-production Essentials
• Build with Amazon EC2

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction

• Introduction to Content Production Workstation Requirements

Module 2: Workstation Requirements

• Amazon EC2 Considerations
• Selecting and Right Sizing Amazon EC2 Instances
• Virtual Workstation System Requirements

Module 3: Conclusion

• Summary

Module 4: Knowledge Check Questions

• Knowledge Check

Module 5: Getting Help

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