> With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game. For smaller numbers of instances it's true t

> With AWS, amazon doesn't care if I spawn out a 1000 node render farm, as long as I'm paying, it's all fair game. For smaller numbers of instances it's true that you can spawn whatever you want and use them for whatever you want, as long as you pay the stated rates. But for larger numbers of instances you do actually have to tell Amazon what you want them for, and your requested use-case "will be considered". You can't just spin up 1000 instances and pay the stated rate without getting prior authorization; the API will block new instances after a certain point. Here are the default instance limits: http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run_in_Amazon_EC2 http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#How_many_instances_can_I_run...