Overview
A Fast Desktop Experience with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and NICE DCV Server. The server is suitable to have a complete Ubuntu Desktop environment with Gaming Level Graphical support. Use a desktop server to develop directly inside your AWS account with fast networking connection. NVIDIA Gaming Drivers are already installed.
Highlights
- Fast and secure access via HTTP/S. Uses Nice DCV protocol. It streams pixels and not geometries to ensure customer data privacy. In addition, DCV secures both pixels and end-user inputs using WebSocket and TLS encryption.
- Pre-installed Ubuntu Desktop package and apps (Firefox, Libre Office, etc.).
- NICE DCV pre-installed, the fastest Remote Desktop solution out there.
Details
Typical total price
$0.546/hour
Pricing
Free trial
Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
g4dn.xlarge Recommended | $0.02 | $0.526 | $0.546 |
g4dn.2xlarge | $0.02 | $0.752 | $0.772 |
g4dn.4xlarge | $0.03 | $1.204 | $1.234 |
g4dn.8xlarge | $0.03 | $2.176 | $2.206 |
g4dn.12xlarge | $0.04 | $3.912 | $3.952 |
g4dn.16xlarge | $0.04 | $4.352 | $4.392 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
There is no additional charge to use DCV on Amazon EC2. You only pay for the EC2 resources you create to run and store your workloads. There are no refunds but you can contact us for the first setup if you encounter any issue.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
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
Pre-installed Ubuntu Desktop and LightDM
Additional details
Usage instructions
You must have specific information to be able to connect to the server. The Ubuntu Desktop server's IP address or host name. The NICE DCV Server is started on port 8443. Default username is "ubuntu".
- Make sure the instance security groups allow inbound traffic to TCP port 8443, and 22 (for SSH Access).
- Make sure the instance has the role to access the license file. 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 ubuntu with sudo passwd ubuntu. This is the password you will use to log in DCV. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/dcv/latest/adminguide/managing-sessions.html
- Connect to your remote machine with the NICE DCV native client or web client using https://<public_dns>:8443.
Resources
Vendor resources
Support
Vendor support
We offer support in the first 5 days of trial to get started with the installation [email protected]
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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outdated CUDA drivers
This image remote desktop can not be launched as the drivers are outdated:
2022-11-30 19:03:28,723188 [ 2123:2123 ] INFO display - Selecting encoder for usage Frame (0) for session 'console'
2022-11-30 19:03:28,723418 [ 2123:2123 ] WARN NvENC:display - Could not initialize CUDA: Unable to load NVIDIA CUDA library (libcuda.so). Please, update the NVIDIA driver to the latest version.
2022-11-30 19:03:28,723457 [ 2123:2123 ] INFO display - Creating encoder from extension nvenc
2022-11-30 19:03:28,723532 [ 2123:2123 ] WARN NvENC:display - Could not initialize CUDA: Unable to load NVIDIA CUDA library (libcuda.so). Please, update the NVIDIA driver to the latest version.
2022-11-30 19:03:28,723555 [ 2123:2123 ] INFO display - Failed to create encoder from extension nvenc: Unable to load NVIDIA CUDA library (libcuda.so). Please, update the NVIDIA driver to the latest
version.