New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
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New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
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Re: New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
#2So... who's using these dedicated hosts for non-CI/CD purposes? The VM limitation inherent to MacOS heavily limits how I'd imagine these getting used in production.
Re: New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
#3So... who's using these dedicated hosts for non-CI/CD purposes? The VM limitation inherent to MacOS heavily limits how I'd imagine these getting used in production.
This is not a VM. They connected Nitro, which is an NVMe implementation, to real Mac hardware via Thunderbolt. So this is just a Mac booting from external Thunderbolt-connected storage.
Re: New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
#4So... who's using these dedicated hosts for non-CI/CD purposes? The VM limitation inherent to MacOS heavily limits how I'd imagine these getting used in production.
This is not a VM. They connected Nitro, which is an NVMe implementation, to real Mac hardware via Thunderbolt. So this is just a Mac booting from external Thunderbolt-connected storage.
Right. What I'm asking is how that Mac could be useful if at max you can provision it into 2 other machines. It seems like you'd be wasting a lot of money for any traditional server compute task on Mac.
Re: New – Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances
#5Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is not a VM. They connected Nitro, which is an NVMe implementation, to real Mac hardware via Thunderbolt. So this is just a Mac booting from external Thunderbolt-connected storage.
Right. What I'm asking is how that Mac could be useful if at max you can provision it into 2 other machines. It seems like you'd be wasting a lot of money for any traditional server compute task on Mac.
I think one of the possible use cases is for corporations to provide "cloud workstations" that cannot be physically stolen, from which the untrusted employee cannot steal files, that are in the correct country even if the employee is on a business trip, that have automated backups by the virtue of being on EBS. Yes, this is expensive, but I have seen this on non-Mac with the motivation of "protecting the company IP".