NICE DCV is a streaming protocol that supports 4K, 60 FPS streaming. Developers using a browser connect using TCP connections, whereas desktop clients can use QUIC UDP over port 8443 for increased performance.
Developers use AWS Client VPN for a secure connection to network interfaces in the workstations subnets with source network address translation (SNAT).
Amazon Route 53 provides private DNS for the resources in the VPC, as well as inbound and outbound DNS forwarding.
AWS Directory Service provides managed directory service for Microsoft Active Directory to enable local game project storage mapped to individual users.
Workstations are created using an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) built with Amazon EC2 Image Builder. Images include NICE DCV server, developer software, registry changes, and drivers (such as NVIDIA gaming drivers or peripheral drivers). The AWS Marketplace includes common AMIs used for workstations.
Fleets of workstations use graphics Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instance types that provide GPUs and are scaled using Amazon EC2 Auto Scaling groups.
A Session Manager Broker enables management of NICE DCV sessions.
Local file storage of projects are hosted in Amazon FSx for Windows File Server. Developers commit to a separate continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline by pushing from local storage to source control.
