>> As far as I can tell, DevPay lets you earn money for anything that's 
>> just an AMI. If it isn't an AMI, but some application that *runs* an 
>> instance as part of its operation, DevPay isn't applicable.
> 
> You'd have to launch the instance with your AMI, yes. You get paid for 
> people running your AMI.

Granted I haven't read the detailed documentation. But it looks like you 
can put together an AMI and list it on Amazon's website with "hey, you 
can run this thing for $2/hour". But that would mean that to use your 
AMI, somebody would have to select it, start it up, copy their files 
onto it, launch POV-Ray and tell it to render.

If you wanted to be able to submit renders from your PC and have them 
automatically run, you'd have to have an instance constantly running, 
waiting for work to be submitted. Which means that when there's no work 
in the queue, you're paying money for an idle instance to run. And even 
when there is work, DevPay doesn't appear to offer a way to charge money 
for submitting a job to a queue, only for physically starting an AMI.

Assuming I've understood the documentation correctly anyway...

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