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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by reaperducer on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:37AM (#25266737)
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.

Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by nitrogen on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:19PM (#25267245)
Aren't most renderers compatible with Linux or Windows, where you can get much larger instances?