Re #9, they mentioned last year in the roadmap section that they were already investigating a cloud backed option. That would mean a render farm.
Personally I’d prefer if they’d just released a runner agent and make the GUI able to talk to it. I don’t want yet another vendor to assess compliance with. Some of our material has heaps of confidentiality requirements and it took ages to get even AWS to pass. So we’d want to use the vendors we already have vetted. Just give us an agent we can deploy to a dedicated VPC or network at whatever provider we’re already using, and I’d be happy. And No requirement for egress to Topaz servers. Again, due to security and confidentiality. A Topaz managed solution is a no-go for us. A backend (agent and orchestrator) we can deploy ourselves, I couldn’t be happier about.
