Case Study
Hybrid Render Farm for a VFX Studio in Finland
Setup Parameters
- Auto-Scaling
- Set up 50 EC2 instances of g4dn.xlarge
- Storage (S3 + EBS)
- 500 GB of daily storage to be accumulated
- Transfers
- 1TB of daily data transfers between office network and AWS VPC
- Budget Control
- 2000 € monthly limit for additional rendering resources
Results
Cost Summary ≈ 2210 EUR
- 1510 € for Compute
- Averaging around 30 g4dn.xlarge instances for 6 hours/day
- 4x
- Faster render times during high-demand periods
- 420 € for Storage
- 320€ (S3) + 100€ (EBS) additional storage for active render instances
- 15TB Storage + EBS option
- Accumulated S3 for 30 days
- 280 € for Data Transfers
- Optimized 1TB daily transfer
- Controlled Budget
- Predictable monthly expenses
