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Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by geofft » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

joana035 wrote: post #34

geofft wrote: post #28

I can't seem to find pricing for this - anyone understand AWS better than me? It's not listed on their dedicated host pricing page at https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/dedicated-hosts/pricing/ , and if I go through the web console to create an instance, I'm prompted to create a Mac dedicated host without any indication of how much I'd be paying.

You have to be logged in to see the prices.

I am logged in, and I see prices for other dedicated host types (and I saw them even before I was logged in) but not mac1.metal. Do you see the price?

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by banana_giraffe » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

No mention of pricing that I can see, and I don't see it on ec2instances, AWS's pricing page, or the spot-pricing widget on the console.

Am I missing something?

Edit: And the reserved instances widget (I was going to guess based off this cost) just flat out breaks when you pick mac. I guess we're still in the "If you have to ask, it's too expensive" stage, or something.

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:58 AM UTC

tsjq wrote: post #26

porphyra wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Woah! Are they adding the M1 chip to/in their datacenter servers/blades?

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Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

arthurcolle wrote: post #39

samwestdev wrote: post #35

I wander about the pricing...

$999.99 per month. "We wanted to redefine how people interact with macOS, on a deeper, ... and more granular level. Truly redefining the user experience and rethinking what was really possible, in the cloud." Slogan for new product line: "A silver lining."

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Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by feteru » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

usmannk wrote: post #22

apapli wrote: post #19

Interesting. 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 peopl…

How are you developing iOS apps without xcode?

Maybe using something like Expo: https://expo.io/

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by offtop5 » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 4:59 AM UTC

Awesome.

I'll still keep a Mac mini since I like Logic, but this is very very good for say a Unity or Flutter developer who needs to deploy apps to iOS

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by joana035 » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:00 AM UTC

geofft wrote: post #41

joana035 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have to be logged in to see the prices.

I am logged in, and I see prices for other dedicated host types (and I saw them even before I was logged in) but not mac1.metal. Do you see the price?

Ah no, sorry, the dedicated hosted pages used to not show any price when not logged in.

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by ianmobbs » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:01 AM UTC

This could be huge for the ecosystem. For example, there are ways to use third-party iMessage clients (e.g. through Matrix) that require you to keep a server running on your local macOS machine signed in to your AppleID - this could let developers create hosted versions of those services

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by flardinois » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

samwestdev wrote: post #35

I wander about the pricing...

$1.083 per hour, but you have to pre-pay for 24 hours to start one up. After that, it's billed by the second.

Re: Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

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Post by tootie » Tue, Dec 01, 2020, 5:02 AM UTC

"The instances are launched as EC2 Dedicated Hosts with a minimum tenancy of 24 hours"

These are just rentable Mac Minis, not VMs. This will have only one use case and that's for build servers. Unless anyone has scalable AppleScript jobs to run?