Whether it’s 3D rendering jobs, virtual workstations, desktop applications, content streaming, video encoding, or any other graphics-intensive workload, customers will have the power to deliver high-fidelity content and to build next generation graphics applications in the cloud.

G3 instances are fundamentally disrupting how customers deploy and provision workstations. Customers can co-locate their compute resources with large data sources, enabling them to further optimize their costs. Available across the world, G3 instances allow distributed teams across geographies to collaborate, and use their investments more efficiently.

With G3 instances, customers can spin up resources when required, and spin them down when their work is done. Coupled with AWS’ wide range of storage and data services, teams can build new experiences and deliver to anywhere in the world at any time.

G3 instances feature up to 64 vCPUs based on custom 2.7 GHz Intel Xeon E5 2686 v4 processors and 488 GiB of DRAM host memory. Backed by up to 4 NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs, with each GPU delivering up to 2,048 parallel processing cores and 8 GiB of GPU memory, G3 instances can enable demanding graphics applications like seismic visualization, computer-aided design, medical image processing, and virtual reality experiences in the cloud. G3 instances also feature a hardware encoder supporting up to 10 H.265 (HEVC) 1080p30 streams and up to 18 H.264 1080p30 streams.

G3 instances support OpenGL 4.5, DirectX 12.0, CUDA 8.0, and OpenCL 1.2. They are the first Amazon EC2 instances to support NVIDIA GRID Virtual Workstation capabilities with streaming support for four monitors each with up to 4K resolution (4096 x 2160 pixels). G3 instances also support GRID Virtual Application capabilities for virtual desktop applications and virtualization software, such as Citrix XenApp Essentials and VMware Horizon, enabling up to 25 concurrent users per GPU.

Next generation Elastic Network Adapter (ENA) technology provides G3 instances with high throughput, low latency interfaces for networking and Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS). G3 instances offer up to 20 Gbps of network bandwidth and up to 14 Gbps of dedicated bandwidth to EBS.

The increasing complexity in exploration and production (E&P) and overall reservoir management requires extremely fast data processing, visualization, and storage capabilities combined with strong data security to protect collected data. G3 instances offer the processing power and visualization capabilities to meet these needs.

The media and entertainment industry can benefit greatly from G3 instances. Customers can use G3 instances for post-production and video playout/broadcast as well as video encoding and transcoding. In addition G3 instances can support AR/VR applications.

G3 instances support GRID Virtual Application capabilities for virtual desktop applications and virtualization software like Citrix XenApp and Microsoft Remote Desktop Session Host (RDSH), enabling up to 25 concurrent users per GPU.