What is Amazon Nimble Studio?

Nimble Studio provides infrastructure and centralized management for a suite of applications and services that artists can use to produce visual effects, animation, and games content in the cloud.

With Nimble Studio, you get essential tools for user and group management. You can also add and manage applications, including AWS Thinkbox and Nimble Studio File Transfer.

Nimble Studio features a unified interface that puts all of your studio resources in one place. You can onboard users, assign applications, and attach permissions specific to their job function. Nimble Studio requires no AWS experience, and you can set it up in about five minutes.

Features and benefits

Here are some of the features and benefits you get with Nimble Studio:

• Use Nimble Studio at no charge; pay only for the studio resources that your applications use.

• Centrally manage your studio, check its status, and gain high-level insights into its operation.

• Add and manage Nimble Studio applications, users and groups, and attach permissions.

• Securely manage access to studio resources with AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies and roles.

• Manage sign-in in security for studio users and external identity providers with AWS IAM Identity Center (IAM Identity Center).

• Organize and easily find studio resources with tags to your studio resources.

Related applications

Nimble Studio provides applications for digital content creators to operate a cloud-based studio for producing visual effects (VFX), animation, and interactive content.

You can install these applications to your local computer or in the cloud with an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance. You can also use Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to safely transfer and store digital media assets. This means you can use Nimble Studio to reduce the costs of physical infrastructure, equipment, and technical staff.

Nimble Studio currently provides the following applications:

• AWS Thinkbox: Thinkbox software includes the render farm manager Thinkbox Deadline, and the 3D plugin, Thinkbox Krakatoa. You can use Thinkbox software to help you increase your studio's creative output on premises, in the cloud with Amazon EC2, or a combination of both. For more information, see AWS Thinkbox Products.

• Nimble Studio File Transfer: File Transfer accelerates media asset transfers of digital media assets to and from Amazon S3. File Transfer provides a graphical user interface, which you can use to quickly move thousands of large media files. For more information, see the What is Nimble Studio File Transfer page.

Pricing for Nimble Studio

There is no charge to set up Nimble Studio and use it to manage your studio infrastructure, users, security, and services.

However, if you set up services and applications in your studio, you might be charged for storage and other studio resources. For more information about Nimble Studio application pricing, see the individual application's pricing page.

For information about managing your AWS costs, see the AWS Cost Explorer Service and AWS Budgets.

Get started with Nimble Studio

Nimble Studio setup and deployment takes about five minutes.

After you familiarize yourself with Nimble Studio Concepts and terminology, see Getting started with Amazon Nimble Studio. In it, you'll find step-by-step instructions for deploying your studio.