In the fast-paced world of media and entertainment, film studios face constant pressure to scale compute resources for demanding tasks like image rendering and video transcoding. These workloads demand reliable, on-demand power—without inflating costs or disrupting content production.
That’s why we’re thrilled to announce the general availability of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Batch Service, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s new fully managed, cloud-native, multi-tenant service. Designed with media studios, VFX teams, and content creators in mind, OCI Batch Service automates and orchestrates intensive compute jobs with simplicity and efficiency. Built on OCI’s industry-leading compute technology, OCI Batch Service handles provisioning, execution, and optimization—so you can focus on creativity, storytelling, and delivering results.
What is OCI Batch Service?
OCI Batch Service acts as an intelligent orchestration layer for batch jobs across OCI’s compute options. It provides smart automation, including provisioning, demand based scaling, and dynamic job prioritization. Plus, its API integrates easily with digital content creation (DCC) tools and customer storage options like OCI Object Storage or OCI FSS.
Key features include:
- Autoscaling and Customizable Priority Queue: OCI Batch Service handles scaling resources for you, so that you never pay for idle compute. OCI Batch Service implements user-defined priorities that you can adjust in real time based on deadlines, urgency, availability, or other custom rulesets. This keeps critical tasks moving without constant manual monitoring and intervention.
- Bring Your Own Image (BYOI) for Flexible Execution: Upload custom containers to your OCI Container Registry (OCIR). Run proprietary workloads exactly as needed, supporting everything from custom renderers to scripts. This adapts to diverse environments and evolving requirements.
- Pay Only What You Run: Pay only for the time your image is running, not for the underlying infrastructure startup and provisioning times.
- OCI-Native Integration: Connect seamlessly to services like FSS or Object Storage for data management, Logging for monitoring and Notifications for alerts and communication.
OCI Batch Service in Action: Media Use Cases
OCI Batch Service handles media studio’s often spikey resource demands through flexible priorities and BYOI support backed by OCI’s extensive compute resources.
- Rendering High-Volume Scenes: VFX teams submit frame batches from DCC tools. OCI Batch Service routes them to GPU instances using BYOI renderers. Real-time priority adjustments speed up urgent shots, and it scales to hundreds of nodes for efficient processing and usage-based costs—without idle resources.
- Transcoding Video at Scale: Content platforms use FFmpeg containers to convert footage. OCI Batch Service distributes tasks across VMs, pulling data from Object Storage to turn multi-day jobs into hours, especially during peak content volumes.
- Automating End-to-End Pipelines: Chain renders with post-processing or AI tasks via CI/CD, using BYOI for custom scripts. Quick priority changes clear bottlenecks, and built-in notifications help teams stay on track—reducing errors and manual work for smoother workflows.
- Powering VFX Simulations: Run simulations, scaling to thousands of tasks. Easily shift priorities for resource-intensive phases and adapt the setup for non-media uses like engineering simulations.
- Any other compute intensive parallel process: BYOI gives you the flexibility to run any process you need.
With dynamic controls and flexibility, OCI Batch Service evolves with your needs, supporting your compute intensive workloads and workflows.
Launch Partner Spotlight: Skydance Animation
We’re especially proud to launch OCI Batch Service with Skydance Animation (SDA) as our Launch Partner. Skydance Animation is an award-winning Feature Animation studio that served as a critical thought-partner in OCI Batch Service’s development. SDA’s deep expertise in animation pipelines, complex rendering and technologically demanding productions directly influenced features like dynamic prioritization and BYOI, ensuring the service aligns with the rigorous demands of world-class production. As Skydance Animation scales their groundbreaking projects on OCI Batch Service, they’re validating its power to drive efficiency and creativity at the highest levels.
Why Choose OCI Batch Service? The Oracle Advantage
In a crowded cloud market, OCI Batch Service stands out thanks to Oracle’s enterprise-grade foundation. Our global data centers provide low-latency performance and multitenant security for reliable operations. OCI’s simple pricing model—with no fees for data transfers within the platform—helps with accurate budgeting. Tunable priorities and BYOI keep you in control, combining massive scale with workflow customization.
Get Started with OCI Batch Service Today
OCI Batch Service is now generally available and ready to enhance your media operations—from simple renders to full pipelines—with easy onboarding.
- Try it now: Head to the OCI Console to create your first OCI Batch Service Context.
At Oracle, we’re committed to powering the intelligent enterprise. OCI Batch Service puts Oracle’s industry-leading compute at creator’s fingertips. Ready for your next big project? Let’s get started.
For more information explore the OCI Batch Service documentation, FAQ and solution features.