Seems like a major new growth vertical for AWS and gives Apple the ability to vet this [if its successful] for potentially launching their own offering one day.
Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
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Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#12What's a serious use case for this?
We have an internal application that would benefit from having local access to our network infrastructure (VPC) without needing a VPN.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#13What's a serious use case for this?
CI/CD for iOS, MacOS, and React Native builds. Right now the pricing for Mac instances for builds via Github, Gitlab, Circle, etc are ludicrous. For a certain developer velocity, these instances will probably be much, much cheaper than running builds through the CI/CD SaaS providers.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#14What's a serious use case for this?
Builds without having to maintain your own macs.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#15What's a serious use case for this?
I have the same question. Why would I want this over a Linux instance (assuming the latter is cheaper)?
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#16What's a serious use case for this?
Build/CI systems for Mac and iOS apps, I would guess. Definitely not for running generic web apps.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#17What's a serious use case for this?
Custom CI agents perhaps. Or maybe on-demand / shared build / debugging machines for a development shop that does mostly cross-platform mobile development and (very) occasionally encounters ios-specific bugs.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#18What's a serious use case for this?
Fuzzing binaries comes to mind as well.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#19Interesting. The deciding factor for our family when buying a Mac or Windows 10 device for my wife’s small business was actually my need to upload iOS apps for review by apple.
I’m an after hours hobby developer, and use a windows desktop. It’s powerful and has all the tooling I require. And it supports all the games I want to play from the steam store.
So - I think apple will lose a little bit of business from people like me with this announcement, as I’m sure we would not have purchased a Mac when we did only a few months ago.
Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
#20What's a serious use case for this?
Build servers for iOS apps, it can also be part of a CI/CD flow for mobile or cross-platform apps because you need to be running MacOS to upload apps to App Store Central