Green Button is a startup already doing this: http://www.greenbutton.net/ http://www.greenbutton.net/ They even use Azure. They don't specifically support Rend

Green Button is a startup already doing this: http://www.greenbutton.net/ http://www.greenbutton.net/ They even use Azure. They don't specifically support Renderman, though. (At least, not yet.) Like other posters here, I would be curious to know why these companies are using Azure instead of some other cloud platform.