Dec 02, 2020 12:30:00

AWS announces 'Amazon EC2 Mac Instances' to make macOS available in the cloud

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EC2 from Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, which are instances for macOS. This allows developers of apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari to run macOS via the cloud, and use macOS as much as needed when needed without having to have a Mac at hand. You will be able to do it.

Announcing Amazon EC2 Mac instances for macOS
https://aws.amazon.com/jp/about-aws/whats-new/2020/11/announcing-amazon-ec2-mac-instances-for-macos/

Mac instances for EC2 now available from Amazon Web Services --News --Apple Developer
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=swfemvx0

With Amazon EC2 Mac Instances, developers can take advantage of AWS's flexibility, resilience, and scalability to focus more on developing creative and useful applications and spend more on managing their infrastructure. You'll save time, 'AWS explains. Furthermore, by utilizing another type of EC2 instance, developers will be able to integrate the application development environment for iOS and macOS with the application development environment for Windows and Android on AWS. It will be more responsive and will significantly reduce the time it takes to release an application, 'AWS explains.

Like other EC2 instances, 'Amazon EC2 Mac Instances' can be used with other AWS services. Amazon VPC , a network security service, Amazon EBS , a fast and extensible storage service, Elastic Load Balancing , a scalable file system service that distributes processing to EC2 instances, Amazon FSx , a scalable file system service, and macOS environment configuration management and patches. By using it with AWS Systems Manager , a resource management tool that allows you to apply, developers can concentrate more on developing their applications.

'Amazon EC2 Mac Instances' works with a combination of Mac mini with Intel's 8th generation Core i7 processor and AWS Nitro System . The vCPU has 6 physical cores and 12 logical cores, the clock frequency is 3.2GHz, and the turbo is 4.6GHz. The memory is 32GB, and the instance storage is only compatible with EBS. It supports 10 Gbps VPC network bandwidth via Thunderbolt 3 and 8 Gbps EBS storage bandwidth.

In addition, 'Amazon EC2 Mac Instances' will be provided as bare metal instances, as the instance type name 'mac1.metal' suggests. At the time of writing, we support macOS 10.14 and macOS 10.15, but support for the latest version, macOS 11.0 (Big Sur), will be available soon.

At the time of article creation, the supported regions are only US East (Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), EU (Ireland), and Asia-Pacific (Singapore), but supported regions will be added in sequence. It's a schedule.