Amazon launches EC2 Mac instances, bringing Intel-based Mac minis to its cloud for $1.083 per hour billed by the second
AWS today opened its re:Invent conference with a surprise announcement: the company is bringing the Mac mini to its cloud. These new EC2 Mac instances, as AWS calls them, are now available in preview.
TechCrunch Frederic Lardinois
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Discussion
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@quinnypig
Corey Quinn
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Single sign-on, nitro security chip, VPC support obviously. Intel chips, Mojave and Catalina support. Big Sir coming soon. 12 vCPUs, 32GB of RAM, EBS storage only, 10Gbps, massive EBS performance. #reinvent
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@stevesi
Steven Sinofsky
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New - Use Amazon EC2 Mac Instances to Build & Test macOS, iOS, ipadOS, tvOS, and watchOS Apps https://aws.amazon.com/... // Apple is getting very close to end point and cloud symmetry, across endpoint devices too.
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@film_girl
Christina Warren
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Bummer about how EC2 macOS instances work — all requirements of the license — but still kudos to Amazon for making it an option. https://twitter.com/...
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@thedavedev
Dave Isbitski
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EC2 Mac instances now available! CI/CD when developing #iOS & #MacOS applications in the #AWS cloud! #DevOps https://twitter.com/...
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@fredericl
Frederic Lardinois
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Here's a deep dive into the announcement: https://techcrunch.com/...
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@kfury
Kevin Fox
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Oh my god. EC2 Mac *and* iOS instances deployed on Mac mini farms in AWS datacenters. No M1 processors yet though. I'm sure they're validating that as fast as they can. https://aws.amazon.com/...