I just saw an email from AWS saying the CloudXR AMI was no longer being offered to new customers.
We are writing to inform you that, as of October 24, 2024, NVIDIA will no longer offer “NVIDIA CloudXR AMI Introductory Offer” to new subscribers on AWS Marketplace.
We’re about to launch our “Zapbox Link” app for consumers to stream PC VR to their iPhones, and we were planning on putting a tutorial together on how to try out cloud-based streaming with AWS by using the NVIDIA AMI.
Can you share any details about the plans for the CloudXR AMI? Should we just be encouraging users to start from another AMI like the gaming PC one and just install the CloudXR server afterwards?
Hello – yes we received this message as well and aren’t entirely sure the reasoning. We have a ticket open with AWS to investigate.
That said, the image contains the bundle and is easy to make yourself if necessary by copying over the package and taking a snapshot of the image. The AMI been made available mostly as an aid to help get started with CloudXR on AWS.
Thanks - I was also wondering if you were planning an update of the vGPU driver and CloudXR to 4.0.1.
I briefly looked into the “right way” to create Windows AMIs (auto-generated passwords etc) but it’s not something I’ve done before and there were quite a loot of docs to read through.
It seems the NVIDIA AMI is still unavailable, so I put together a walkthrough video starting from a base Windows Server 2022 image for Zapbox Link users but it might also be useful for anyone else wanting a basic CloudXR server setup on AWS.