AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets

Amazon Web Services has enhanced its Deadline Cloud service with persistent storage support for Service-Managed Fleets, addressing a significant operational limitation for compute-intensive creative workloads. The update allows workers in the cloud-based rendering service to maintain data across lifecycle events by attaching persistent Amazon EBS volumes, eliminating the previous reliance on ephemeral storage that required software and assets to be reinstalled with each worker recycling. The persistent storage capability preserves critical data including Conda environments, Perforce workspaces, shader caches, and asset collections, directly reducing worker startup times and accelerating job completion for visual effects, animation, product design, simulation, and gaming workloads. Organizations can configure the number of persistent volumes per worker and set time-to-live parameters to balance storage costs with performance requirements. The feature is immediately available across all AWS regions where Deadline Cloud operates, with persistent volumes priced according to existing Service-Managed Fleets EBS pricing structures. This enhancement targets the media and entertainment industry's need for efficient cloud-based rendering solutions that can maintain state across distributed computing operations.