AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud

[Deactivated] on 01/12/2020 - 17:50
Last edited 01/12/2020 - 18:04

AWS brings the Mac mini to its cloud

Available in the following regions today: US East (N. Virginia), US East (Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland) and Asia Pacific (Singapore)

  • Intel core i7 processors with 3.2 GHz (4.6 GHz turbo)
  • 6 physical / 12 logical cores
  • 32 GiB of memory
  • 10Gbps network bandwidth
  • Instance storage is available via Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS)
  • Mac instances are dedicated, bare-metal instances which are accessible in the EC2 console as dedicated hosts

M1 Mac minis will rollout early next year.

AWS EC2 Mac Instances Launch - macOS in the cloud for the first time, with the benefits of EC2

macOS instances US$1.083 per hour, billed by the second (minimum of 24 hours)
At that pricing it will cost US$790/month or ~A$1,070/month if you leave it running all the time.

How are those Black Friday prices for the Mac mini looking now?

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Comments

  • bazingaa on 01/12/2020 - 18:08

    no M1 yet ?

    • [Deactivated] on 01/12/2020 - 18:11
      +1

      M1 Mac minis will rollout early next year.

  • scotty on 01/12/2020 - 19:11
    +2

    So minimum cost would be US$26 for 1 day, and US$790 for 1 month (not reserved instance). Wouldn't something like MacStadium be cheaper? US$139/month for i7/32GB/512GB.

    Still expensive comparing to a Linux dedicated server.

    • [Deactivated] on 04/12/2020 - 20:06

      Wouldn't something like MacStadium(macstadium.com) be cheaper? US$139/month for i7/32GB/512GB.

      Yes, MacStadium is definitely cheaper even after the EC2 reserved instance discount - up to 72%.

      This isn't a viable option for most indie devs due to the high cost. It's probably targeted at 'enterprises' that already use IAM and have strict security and privacy requirements.

      Instances can be automatically and consistently provisioned with Terraform compared to a manual process which can take hours with MacStadium. There's easier access to other AWS services as well: EBS, S3, VPC, CloudFormation, CloudWatch, Systems Manager etc.

      For those that have already significant infrastructure in AWS, this may be more cost effective considering the time saved; or maybe these companies just have a lot of cash to burn :)

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