Case Study: inVRsion achieves 48% AWS cost reduction and 16% faster Unreal Engine compilation with Incredibuild

inVRsion optimizes Unreal Engine compilation speed and AWS costs

inVRsion is an Italian VR SaaS startup (SholiZon®) that builds virtual retail environments in Unreal Engine for clients like Nestlé and PepsiCo. Their automated pipelines required GPU‑heavy EC2 instances (g3.8xlarge) to kick off projects, causing long reservation delays (up to three days during COVID), slow single‑node execution (146–194 minutes), and high per‑simulation AWS costs.

inVRsion deployed Incredibuild to distribute C++ builds, shader compilation and light baking across many cheaper helper instances (c5.xlarge), using Incredibuild’s native Unreal integration and automated EC2 spin up/down. The new setup eliminated the GPU bottleneck, reduced reservation time to near zero, cut cost per simulation from €9.72 to €5.05 (48% savings) and reduced compilation time from 2:26 to 2:04 (≈16% faster), and now runs autonomously in production.

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Michele Antolini

Chief Technology Officer