Overview
NICE DCV is a high performance remote streaming protocol that enables user to securely access remote desktop or application sessions, including 3D graphics applications hosted on servers with high-performance GPUs.
G4ad instances, powered by AMD Radeon Pro V520 GPUs, provide the best price performance for graphics intensive applications in the cloud. They provide up to 45% better price performance, including up to 40% better graphics performance, compared to G4dn instances for graphics applications such as remote graphics workstations, game streaming, and rendering that leverage industry standard APIs such as OpenGL and Vulkan.
NICE DCV offers end users a wide range of client devices, including native clients for Windows, Linux, and MacOS operating systems. Native clients support up to 4 monitors at 4K resolution each and the Windows client also supports USB redirection for 3D mice and USB storage devices. The QUIC/UDP protocol is enabled as well.
NICE DCV Ubuntu 18 Desktop supports high end remote 3D access for e.g. HPC pre-/post-processing applications. Includes support for remote USB devices and file transfer. AMD drivers pre-installed for high-end remote 3D experience.
The G4ad instances are available in 3 sizes, providing up to 64 vCPUs, 4 GPUs, 256 GB instance memory, 2.4 TB local NVMe-based SSD storage, and 25 Gbps networking bandwidth.
On AWS, NICE DCV provides the streaming protocol e.g. used by Amazon Appstream 2.0 and AWS RoboMaker.
Highlights
- Remote Performance: Responsive and secure streaming experience allowing customers to run graphics intensive applications remotely removing the need for expensive dedicated workstations or transferring large amounts of data. Based on NICE DCV from AWS.
- Secure TLS encrypted leading-edge 3D remote desktop connection on high-end AMD based cloud GPUs. Includes remote USB support and file transfer.
- Ubuntu 18 desktop with full superuser access to add and manage own applications. Leverages the highly cost-efficient AMD cloud GPUs.
Details
Typical total price
$0.429/hour
Pricing
Free trial
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
g4ad.xlarge Recommended | $0.05 | $0.379 | $0.429 |
g4ad.2xlarge | $0.06 | $0.541 | $0.601 |
g4ad.4xlarge | $0.08 | $0.867 | $0.947 |
g4ad.8xlarge | $0.16 | $1.734 | $1.894 |
g4ad.16xlarge | $0.32 | $3.468 | $3.788 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No refunds
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Includes NICE DCV 2022.2-14126 with support for full-screen on selected monitors by the NICE DCV client on Windows and other new features and patches. More information can be found here: https://www.ni-sp.com/11-11-2022-nice-releases-dcv-2022-2-including-new-features/
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Make sure the instance security groups allow inbound traffic to TCP and UDP port 8443 and TCP port 22.
- Configure the instance to have the role to access the license file as per https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/setting-up-license.html
- Connect to your remote machine with ssh -i
ubuntu@ - Set the password for the user "ubuntu" with 'sudo passwd ubuntu'. This is the password you will use to log in to DCV
- Connect to your remote machine with the NICE DCV native client or web client using https://<public_dns>:8443
- Enter your credentials and you are ready to rock
With DCV 2021 and later QUIC/UDP will be used automatically together with the new DCV 2021 and later client. In the DCV client connection settings you can select TCP transport as well. Please do not perform an update of Ubuntu to new kernel or higher releases as it might disable the GPU driver.
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Vendor support
Free support is available through forums (https://forums.aws.amazon.com/forum.jspa?forumID=366 ), technical documentation (https://aws.amazon.com/documentation/dcv/ ) and NI SP Tips and Tricks (https://www.ni-sp.com/nice-dcv-tips-and-tricks/ ). https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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