Bringing AWS benefits to Apple developers with Amazon EC2 Mac instances
summary
AWS now runs macOS on EC2 using Intel 2018 Mac Minis exposed as a Bare Metal Dedicated Host called Mac1.metal with 6 physical cores, 12 threads, 32 GB RAM, up to 8 Gbps EBS and 10 Gbps network, billed per host with a 24 hour minimum allocation and Savings Plans up to 44% off. Real migrations take days not months and customers report build times dropping from 20+ minutes to sub five minutes and UI test suites from ~3 hours to under 1 hour. M1-based hosts are in development and Type 2 VMs are supported.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 0:51Broadest and deepest compute platform choice
- 1:29Application development lifecycle for Apple devices
- 2:30How are you building Apple applications today?
- 3:53Key challenges
- 7:57Amazon EC2 Mac usage specifications
- 11:41Amazon EC2 Mac purchase options
- 12:46Key benefits
- 19:54Amazon EC2 Mac: Frequently asked questions
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