Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

> As always, I asked the EC2 team for access to an instance in order to put it through its paces. The instances are available in Dedicated Host form, so I started by allocating a host.

Dedicated Hosts (https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/) are more pricey than virtual instances (most EC2) and Dedicated Instances. Not sure if it's possible to containerize/sell as many virtual instances off a dedicated server without paying a separate high license fee to Apple.

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by anonu » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:43 AM UTC

What's a serious use case for this?

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by brodouevencode » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:44 AM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #3

Amazon is announcing a new thing every week at this rate.

Well, it is reInvent time so there's more than normal. But you are right - follow their news feed and there's several changes happening weekly.

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Post by SilasX » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

MattGaiser wrote: post #3

Amazon is announcing a new thing every week at this rate.

Not service outages though.

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by porphyra » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:45 AM UTC

paxys wrote: post #4

> The instances feature an 8th generation, 6-core Intel Core i7 (Coffee Lake) processor For those wondering

> EC2 Mac instances with the Apple M1 chip are already in the works, and planned for 2021.

Also for those wondering