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Hypothetically, if AWS instead installed Linux on these, could they disregard Apple's EULA?
I would think so, but IANAL. But what would be the point of running Linux on a Mac Mini on AWS?
nerd sniping.
Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances
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After my experience 3 years ago, I will never use them again. I priced out an instance that estimated around $30/month via their calculator. Instance is indeed around $30 for the first 2 months, then I get a $200 bill. I don't know what the hell happened, but it was over 6x what I had budgeted. I tried to get someone to review my account, but I didn't get a response and just had to suck it up. I paid the $200 and mov…
The disk you attach to an instance is not free, and capacity/performance characteristics dictate price.
It's possible that was the issue, but I estimated a 20gb storage partition. Maybe usage was to blame, I know the server was inefficient with reads and writes.
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I'm using Google Fi. Once I exceed my paid for bandwidth level for a given month it notifies me. When I go 50% over it notifies me a second time. If I want to know the bandwidth used I can check it anytime I want on my phone. Considering the huge amount of developers having problems of this kind how hard would it be for AWS to implement a similar system?
Other providers let users put billing limits on their accounts. Seems like Amazon benefits when users aren't able to put a $30 a month limit on their accounts like the OP wanted to.
You are just making stuff up. AWS has all those things. Billing limits. Cost monitoring. It is all there.
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They mentioned the main use case when they launched the initial Mac ec2 instances. Any company that does something on iOS/macos needs mac hardware to run builds on, there is no other (legal) option. The status quo (even at very large companies) is some mac mini's under someones desk/in a closet somewhere. This is basically replacing the cost of that setup (ie the oncall for it/hassle). The AWS service is even more ex…
Is this really true? There really isn’t a cross compiling chain that would allow me to build a macOS app on a freebsd system (for instance) ?
Cross-compiling is possible, but breaks the Xcode/Apple SDK license terms.
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#195And in just 3 months you could have purchased an M1 Mac outright!
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Other providers let users put billing limits on their accounts. Seems like Amazon benefits when users aren't able to put a $30 a month limit on their accounts like the OP wanted to.
You are just making stuff up. AWS has all those things. Billing limits. Cost monitoring. It is all there.
Billing limits, as in, a hard limit over which resources will shut down and I can be sure I won't be charged over that limit? I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist.
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I came here to ask the same thing. So if Apple don't make a rackable M1 server, what do they themselves use? It seems a bit unlikely Apple would have racks of minis as well.
You can literally buy a rack count tray for Mac Minis on Amazon, so I’d assume AWS mounts them in racks. It’s not the cleanest model, but Mac mini’s are smaller than 1U (1.4” vs 1.75”). They are also much cleaner to rack than the old trash can Mac Pros. (Non affiliate link to a randomly chosen example) Mac Mini Rack Mount, UCTRONICS 19" 1U Rackmount Supports 2 Units of All Mac Mini M1 and The Previous Models https://…
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Other providers let users put billing limits on their accounts. Seems like Amazon benefits when users aren't able to put a $30 a month limit on their accounts like the OP wanted to.
You are just making stuff up. AWS has all those things. Billing limits. Cost monitoring. It is all there.
If you have to be a domain expert to configure it correctly, as is clearly the case with AWS since configuring it is a whole separate industry, then for all intents and purposes it is not there as far as a regular user is concerned. If it helps, imagine a Cessna pilot who's suddenly asked to fly a big intercontinental aircraft without any of the assistance features turned on. All the controls are there, but as far as the Cessna pilot is concerned, they can't fly it.
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#200I am far away from Appleverse. Can anyone tell me few usecases for M1 EC2 instances?