AWS On Air ft. EC2 M1 Mac Instance Preview
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Amazon launches EC2 M1 Mac instances in preview: Mac minis with Apple M1 silicon attached to Nitro cards provide 10 Gbps networking and 8 Gbps EBS and boot EBS volumes over PCI via Thunderbolt. Benchmarks claim about 60% better price performance versus x86 and a live demo shows build times dropping from ~7.8s to ~3.5s (~40–55% reduction). Instances run arm64 macOS, expose snapshots/AMIs/security groups/auto scaling, but ship with 16 GB unified memory (vs 32 GB on x86). A solenoid robot handles power cycling.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction and hosts
- 1:12Announcing EC2 M1 Mac instances
- 2:30Benefits of EC2 Mac for developers
- 5:39M1 Mac instance advantages
- 9:52Hardware setup and demo intro
- 10:56Performance comparison demo
- 13:05EC2 Mac features and compatibility
- 14:09Architecture considerations
- 16:35Hardware details and implementation
- 18:59Customer demand and challenges
- 20:03Wrap-up and thanks
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