They deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads. Highly recommend this if you need to do the same job and dont want to source a Lion disc elsewhere. Arrived in just a day or two and the drive performs exactly as needed.
#Mac operating system disc at amazon install#
Discovered I had no install disc (or lost it) and so opted for this USB drive. EC2 macOS AMIs includes packages that enable easy integration with AWS, such as launch configuration tools and popular AWS libraries and tools. Needed to get an old 2006 MacBook to its max MacOS version which is Lion. They offer customers a choice of macOS Mojave (10.14), macOS Catalina (10.15), macOS Big Sur (11), and macOS Monterey (12) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). Learn more and get started with x86-based EC2 Mac instances here.ĮC2 M1 Mac instances (now in preview) are built on Apple M1 Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. Amazon EC2 macOS is designed to provide a stable, secure, and high-performance environment for developer workloads running on Amazon EC2 Mac instances. X86-based EC2 Mac instances are built on Apple Mac mini computers featuring Intel Core i7 processors and are powered by the AWS Nitro System.
With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances allow customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers.