Imagine harnessing the power of a virtual render farm without all the effort of setting up and managing the resources!  

On May 10, 2017 Autodesk announced their partnership with Microsoft Azure to offer customers a new cloud rendering solution.  The Azure Batch Rendering Platform will allow Autodesk users to submit their jobs through Autodesk Maya, Autodesk 3ds Max, and Arnold software (with more applications coming soon). This rendering solution provides pay-per-use licensing and access to an easily deployed and flexible state of the art infrastructure through plugins in applications customers are already familiar and comfortable using in their daily workflows. 

For additional details, visit: https://rendering.azure.com/ & https://blogs.autodesk.com/inthefold/autodesk-teams-microsoft-azure-scalable-cloud-rendering/