The "Brenda Package" for Blender

[glorybound]

My personal render farm consist of 5 xp machines and since xp isn't being patched anymore I have to get rid of them. So, instead of upgrades, I was looking into AWS. It's pretty simple to set up, and with the spot instance it might be a lot cheaper.

[glorybound]

Here, is the spot instance going rate per hour. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#spot. If you are doing the OnDemand, it isn't cheaper http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/#on-demand.

[plastic_]

IMO the new Vray licensing would only make sense if it worked more directly.
i.e. not going though some crappy dealers/resellers, but more like how I purchase dropbox storage, buy stuff from apple, etc.
Or yes, Adobe CC, but it needs to be more flexible for rendering.
If you want a share of my 1000 cloud computers rendering out something, OK, I get that. But it can't mean any hassle to me. It must be dead simple and quick.
I don't know how the current license rental system works though, because I don't need it right now. Just thinking out loud.
I think the future is Chaos Cloud running on Amazon or whatever (similar to dropbox), not users fiddling with their own cloud setup. That's what I'd want anyway.