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a company who needed them only a handful of days a year for some reason I can’t immediately think of

Perhaps it's good for render farms. Instead of building a giant render farm that sits idle between productions, you spin up a render farm only when you need one.




Aren't most renderers compatible with Linux or Windows, where you can get much larger instances?




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