Olson - you’re definitely right about long term cost implications for larger scale work - although specifically for the scale of our 3D projects it’ll help when we needed to quickly get an unplanned render bashed out during the day to fix an issue and when we haven’t set the scene to work with Rebus for whatever reason. It’s a tool, which is good to know is at our disposal if it helps.
A well planned schedule and well specced project with properly allocated render resources are bare essentials to any project and from the few hours we’ve been sniffing out the EC2 machines with Backburner I think it still has it’s place here and there, although it’s not to be assumed it’ll fit every project by any means.