AWS announces 'EC2 M1 Mac instance' that can use Mac instance equipped with Apple's 'M1' chip, environment construction & test for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV is possible



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M1 chip was installed at the AWS learning conference 'AWS re: Invent ' held by Amazon Web Services (AWS) from November 29th (Monday) to December 3rd (Friday), 2021. We announced a new service 'EC2 M1 Mac Instance ' that realizes a Mac instance that can handle the native environment of the M1 chip by incorporating a commercially available Mac mini into the rack as it is.

Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV | AWS News Blog
https://aws.amazon.com/jp/blogs/aws/use-amazon-ec2-m1-mac-instances-to-build-test-macos-ios-ipados-tvos-and-watchos-apps/

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AWS has been providing a service called 'EC2 Mac instance ' since 2020, but since the Mac mini that is the basis of this service was a model equipped with a Core i7 processor, it was impossible to try 'native operation of M1 chip'. .. However, the newly announced EC2 M1 Mac instance integrates the Mac mini with the M1 chip into the rack as it is and connects it to the cloud infrastructure system AWS Nitoro System via Thunderbolt . We are now able to offer M1 Mac instances as bare metal servers with 60% better price performance than x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iPhone and Mac app building workloads.

According to AWS, the Mac mini specs available for EC2 M1 Mac instances include CPU 8 cores, GPU 8 cores, memory 16 GB, and Apple Neural Engine 16 cores, which are Thunderbold with a 10 Gbps VPC network and 8 GB bandwidth. It is said that it is connected to the EBS storage of.



The new EC2 M1 Mac instances are available in two regions, the Northern Virginia region in the eastern United States and the Oregon region in the western United States, with an on-demand plan for $ 0.6498 per hour. Furthermore, if you have an annual contract plan called Savings Plans, you can get a discount of up to 42%. A preview request is already available, and you can request it from the link below.

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances (Preview)
https://pages.awscloud.com/M1MacPreview.html



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