Abstract: Graphics rendering services may be provided to a client device by a remote computing facility. One or more rendering processes may be executed on a virtual machine operating on a host computing device. Client state information may be monitored to detect periods of inactivity. A rendering process may be inactivated by suspending the virtual machine on which it executes. Upon resumption of activity, the rendering process may be reactivated by resuming execution of the virtual machine.

Abstract: In some cases, one or more rendered views of a scene of a particular content item, such as a video game, may be generated by a content provider and transmitted from the content provider to multiple different clients. Additionally, in some cases, a content provider may employ multiple graphics processing units to generate the one or more views. Furthermore, in some cases, data associated with multiple different views of a scene may be combined into a single data collection, such as a render target.

Abstract: A client may, for example, initiate presentation of the content item in a hybrid stream mode in which both a client stream and a content provider stream are combined to form a resulting hybrid stream for presentation. The client may then, at some point during presentation of the content item, detect that the content provider stream has become unavailable. In response to such a determination, the client may continue to present the content item in a client stream mode, in which the client stream is used for presentation of the content item without use of the content provider stream.

Abstract: A content provider may operate computing nodes configured to provide graphics rendering services to a client running a game or other application. A graphics frame may be rendered and encoded in a format compatible with a client's display device. A second version of the frame may be encoded in a format having selected storage characteristics and compatible with a plurality of display types. The frame may be added to the end of a video stored by the content provider. Frames may be deleted from the video to prevent the video from exceeding a maximum length.

Abstract: Described herein are systems and methods for automatically selecting a content provider for delivery of content for consumption by a user. Various selection data such as cost, historical delivery bitrate, and so forth are gathered and a weighting profile is applied to generate a total weight by content provider. The total weight by content provider may be used to select one content provider from another for delivery of a particular piece of content.