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Is that a recent shift? I remember talking to someone from a VFX shop a few years ago, and they made it sound like back then anything cloud was a no-go due to their customers requiring material to stay in-house for fear of leaks.

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Yes, smaller studios were early but now the majors like Sony Imageworks are all in. The cloud is a great fit for most of their rendering jobs and security is no different (if not better handled by the cloud).

Here's a session from GCP Next 2018 for cloud render farms: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODOJ3UbnV6Y

Recent enough - at a Google event earlier in 2018 it was mentioned that GCP was now compliant with most (if not all) of the major studios’ security requirements.

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