I know, I know, the built in Amazon ROP is kaput indefinitely! Also, I know there a some fantastic render services (lookin' at you GridMarkets!).

However, after a year of duking it out with my company's security/IT people they've decided that we're going to use a virtual cluster from either Amazon or Google.

I know that the built in ROP is dead but has anyone had anyluck/experience doing this sort of thing manually? Ideally I'd like to use a virtual machine to generate ifds using my engine seat and as many as I can get my hands on for rendering (taking advantage of the unlimited mantra tokens).

Is this even possible?

Hi The3dStig . . . thanks for the kind GridMarkets.com words! FYI, one of our smaller customers, Facebook , recently had similar security concerns - and put GridMarkets thru a security audit. We passed.
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If interested in the details, drop me a line at mark.ross@gridmarkets.com