Deadline Cloud, AWS's managed service for rendering and compute-heavy applications in visual effects and simulation, augmented its Service-Managed Fleets with persistent Amazon EBS volumes. These persist data such as Conda environments, version control workspaces, and shader caches across worker restarts, improving performance by avoiding repetitive reinstallation and configuration.
Users can configure volume counts per worker and set retention periods to balance cost and startup speed. This persistent storage feature, available globally where Deadline Cloud operates, targets faster job completion within animation, gaming, and design workflows that rely on repeated worker lifecycle events.
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AWS Deadline Cloud now supports persistent storage for Service Managed Fleets ↗Source published 2026-06-02. This report was prepared with AI assistance from the linked primary-source material. Claims and limitations should be checked against the original announcement or research.