Thanks for your reply!

And you're right I did a test for a single frame render and it didn't distribute the frame accross the Queue Manager instances.

I too deal mostly in single frame renders, so I suppose this just makes it an academic experiment then.

Still I would be interested to see the difference in render time using a single powerful cloud instance (as in their clustered GPU AMI) vs rendering locally.

Another advantage to rendering to the cloud could be just for the hardware upgrades. My workstation right now is decent enough, but as a hobbyist I'd rather offload the cost of upgrading my rendering power to the Cloud rather than investing in new production rendering hardware myself. 

I'm still gonna see what it takes to get Queue Manager up in the Cloud :)

~ Ryan