macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs
(2021/02/24)
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Amazon Web Services has levelled up its cloudy macOS offering.
The most visible change is the option to run macOS Big Sur (version 11.2.1 to be precise) in addition to the previously offered macOS Mojave (10.14) and macOS Catalina (10.15).
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Big Sur was released on 12 November 2020, just 18 days before AWS unveiled its cloudy Macs. Version 11.2.1 was released on 9 February and it is unclear why it's the best fit for AWS. However, the cloud colossus prides itself on bug-free launches so the delay is almost certainly due to testing and integration requirements.
Amazon's cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac [2]READ MORE
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The other enhancement is the ability to mount Amazon's Elastic File System (EFS) on macOS instances. Users of Amazon's cloudy Macs are currently advised to eschew the native file system in favour of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS).
EFS is now suggested as a fine way to share code repositories across AWS instances, and therefore to get more stuff done faster.
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Amazon's cloudy Macs remain available in just five regions: US East, US East, US West (Oregon), EU, and Asia-Pacific. The instances [5]run on physical Mac Minis and are offered as bare-metal instances because Apple has never really been a fan of virtual Macs. ®
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The most visible change is the option to run macOS Big Sur (version 11.2.1 to be precise) in addition to the previously offered macOS Mojave (10.14) and macOS Catalina (10.15).
[1]
Big Sur was released on 12 November 2020, just 18 days before AWS unveiled its cloudy Macs. Version 11.2.1 was released on 9 February and it is unclear why it's the best fit for AWS. However, the cloud colossus prides itself on bug-free launches so the delay is almost certainly due to testing and integration requirements.
Amazon's cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac [2]READ MORE
[3]
The other enhancement is the ability to mount Amazon's Elastic File System (EFS) on macOS instances. Users of Amazon's cloudy Macs are currently advised to eschew the native file system in favour of Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS).
EFS is now suggested as a fine way to share code repositories across AWS instances, and therefore to get more stuff done faster.
[4]
Amazon's cloudy Macs remain available in just five regions: US East, US East, US West (Oregon), EU, and Asia-Pacific. The instances [5]run on physical Mac Minis and are offered as bare-metal instances because Apple has never really been a fan of virtual Macs. ®
Get our [6]Tech Resources
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[2] https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/02/aws_ec2_mac_pricing/
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[5] https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/01/bare_metal_macsasaservice_come_to/
[6] https://whitepapers.theregister.com/