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For context, Patron member is at €120K+ per year, and this puts them as the 7th one. Other patron members are GPU manufacturers (Nvidia/AMD), game engines (Epic/Unity), Facebook (pre-Meta, but presumably for VR reasons), and AWS (no idea, publicity move to promote AWS use by game studios?). Decentraland fits in there alongside Meta.

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AWS is easy to understand, it provides cloud-rendering: https://www.amazonaws.cn/en/solutions/cloud-rendering-farm/

Thinkbox/deadline is pretty mature and as I understand it is actually already being used by a handful of big shops.

AWS might be because of Lumberyard, their fork of CryEngine

Right, that makes sense. It's now evolved into O3DE, but last year when they joined the BDF Lumberyard's license required games to use AWS for servers.

https://o3de.org/

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