Amazon EC2 Mac instances enable Apple
developers to natively run macOS within AWS—extending the
flexibility and scalability of the cloud with pay-as-you-go pricing
to all Apple developers
Intuit, Ring, and FiLMiC among customers using
EC2 Mac instances
Today at AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an
Amazon.com company (NASDAQ: AMZN), announced new Mac instances (EC2
Mac instances) for Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Built
on Mac mini computers, EC2 Mac instances enable customers to run
on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for the first time ever,
extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to
all Apple developers. With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating
apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can
now provision and access macOS environments within seconds,
dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s
pay-as-you-go pricing. To get started with EC2 Mac instances,
visit: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/Mac/
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Today, millions of developers rely on Apple’s industry-leading
platforms and tools such as Xcode and Swift, and powerful
frameworks like Core ML and Metal, to create the world’s most
amazing apps for over a billion customers globally. Now with EC2
Mac instances, AWS customers can run macOS workloads on AWS and
benefit from the scale, elasticity, reliability, and experience
that AWS’s secure, on-demand infrastructure has offered to millions
of customers for more than a decade. Customers can seamlessly
provision and access macOS compute environments to enjoy
convenient, distributed testing and fast app builds, bringing
additional choice to developers so they can use Mac as their
trusted platform, on-premises or in the cloud. Customers can also
consolidate development of cross-platform Apple, Windows, and
Android apps onto AWS, leading to increased developer productivity
and accelerated time to market. Similar to other Amazon EC2
instances, customers can easily use EC2 Mac instances together with
AWS services and features like Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)
for network security, Amazon Elastic Block Storage (EBS) for
expandable storage, Amazon Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) for
distributing build queues, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) for OS
image orchestration. The availability of EC2 Mac instances also
offloads the heavy lifting that comes with managing infrastructure
to AWS, which means Apple developers can focus entirely on building
great apps.
“Our customers tell us they would love to have their Apple build
environment integrated with AWS services,” said David Brown, Vice
President of EC2, at AWS. “With EC2 Mac instances, developers can
now provision and access on-demand macOS compute environments in
AWS for the first time ever, so they can focus on creating
groundbreaking apps for Apple’s industry-leading platforms, rather
than procuring and managing the underlying infrastructure.”
“Apple’s thriving community of more than 28 million developers
continues to create groundbreaking app experiences that delight
customers around the world,” said Bob Borchers, Vice President,
Worldwide Product Marketing, at Apple. “With the launch of EC2 Mac
instances, we’re thrilled to make development for Apple’s platforms
accessible in new ways, and combine the performance and reliability
of our world-class hardware with the scalability of AWS.”
EC2 Mac instances are powered by a combination of Mac mini
computers—featuring Intel’s eighth-generation 3.2GHz (4.6GHz turbo)
Core i7 processors, 6 physical/12 logical cores, and 32 GiB of
memory—and the AWS Nitro System, providing up to 10 Gbps of VPC
network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of EBS storage bandwidth through high
speed Thunderbolt 3 connections. Amazon EC2 Mac instances are
uniquely enabled by the AWS Nitro System, which makes it possible
to offer Mac mini computers as a fully integrated and managed
compute instances with Amazon VPC networking and Amazon EBS storage
just like any other Amazon EC2 instance. EC2 Mac instances are
available to be purchased On-Demand or with Savings Plans. EC2 Mac
instances are available now in the US East (N. Virginia), US East
(Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Ireland), and Asia Pacific
(Singapore) regions, with other regions coming soon.
Intuit is a mission-driven, global financial platform company.
Its products—including TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint—are designed
to empower more than 50 million consumer, small business and
self-employed customers around the world to improve their financial
lives. “EC2 Mac instances, with their familiar EC2 interfaces and
APIs, have enabled us to seamlessly migrate our existing iOS and
macOS build-and-test pipelines to AWS, further improving developer
productivity,” said Pratik Wadher, Vice President of Product
Development at Intuit. “We‘re experiencing up to 30 percent better
performance over our data center infrastructure, thanks to elastic
capacity expansion, and a high availability setup leveraging
multiple zones. We’re now running around 80 percent of our
production builds on EC2 Mac instances, and are excited to see what
the future holds for AWS innovation in this space.”
Since its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make
neighborhoods safer, together for everyone. “At Ring, we are
committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and
effective for everyone—while working hard to bring communities
together,” said Joshua Roth, Chief Technology Officer, at Ring.
“EC2 Mac instances will allow us to migrate our Apple build
infrastructure to AWS, unlocking the scalability, reliability,
security, and capabilities of AWS for all our Apple developers.
These EC2 Mac instances will also let us quickly scale up our Mac
build fleet whenever we need it, simplify cross-platform app
development through consolidation on a single infrastructure
provider, and ultimately accelerate innovations for thousands of
our Apple customers.”
FiLMiC Inc. is the creator of the award-winning mobile cinema
camera app, FiLMiC Pro. “With a global team of filmmakers,
photographers, creatives, and software developers who share the
same passion for mobile cinema and content creation, FiLMiC has
designed what has become the industry's most sought-after app that
transforms a simple mobile device into a cinematic film camera,”
said Seth Faxon, iOS Development Manager for FiLMiC. “EC2 Mac
instances give us the ability to scale up our continuous
integration build farm in order to quickly go through development,
testing and TestFlight stages. This leads to better velocity and
more time working on the fun stuff.”
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