Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Mac instances for macOS
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The article announces the general availability of Amazon EC2 M2 Mac instances, which are designed for building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari.
Specifically, the article covers:
- M2 Mac instances offer up to 10% faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances, and are powered by the AWS Nitro System and Apple M2 Mac Mini computers with 8-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 24GB of memory, and 16-core Apple Neural Engine.
- M2 Mac instances offer 1.5x RAM and 1.25x GPU cores compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances, enabling increased parallel testing using multiple Xcode simulators.
- M2 Mac instances can be integrated with various AWS services like Amazon VPC, SSM Agent, and Elastic Load Balancing, and offer up to 10 Gbps of VPC network bandwidth and up to 8 Gbps of Amazon EBS storage bandwidth.
- M2 Mac instances support macOS Ventura version 13.2 and later as AMIs, and are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions.
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