The time to spin up is on the order of seconds. IMO, if your core competency isn't sourcing and buying hardware in order to build render farms, you shouldn't d

The time to spin up is on the order of seconds. IMO, if your core competency isn't sourcing and buying hardware in order to build render farms, you shouldn't do it. It's just not worth it. AWS brings a lot of value to the table, not the least of which is the fact that you won't have to maintain/fix hardware when you're just trying to render something. If the instance is broken, you can just kill it and spin up a new one. Seriously, this will make your life so much easier. > Anyone know if the X1 instance is 1 motherboard with 4 sockets or 2 separate mobos with 2? This shouldn't matter. It's abstracted away from you by design.