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mac2-m2.metal

EC2 Instance

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mac2-m2.metal

instance

Bare metal macOS instance with 8 CPU cores and 10 GPU cores (Apple M2), 24 GiB memory, and 10 Gbps networking. M2-based Mac mini for Apple silicon application development.

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mac2-m2.metal

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3 Yr Reserved

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Spot Pricing Details for

mac2-m2.metal

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Frequency of Interruptions: n/a

Frequency of interruption represents the rate at which Spot has reclaimed capacity during the trailing month. They are in ranges of < 5%, 5-10%, 10-15%, 15-20% and >20%.

Last Updated On: December 17, 2024

Compute features of

mac2-m2.metal

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Operating Systems Supported by

mac2-m2.metal

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Security features of

mac2-m2.metal

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General Information about

mac2-m2.metal

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Benchmark Test Results for

mac2-m2.metal

CPU Encryption Speed Benchmarks

Cloud Mercato tested CPU performance using a range of encryption speed tests:

Encryption Algorithm	Speed (1024 Block Size, 3 threads)
AES-128 CBC	N/A
AES-256 CBC	N/A
MD5	N/A
SHA256	N/A
SHA512	N/A

I/O Performance

Cloud Mercato's tested the I/O performance of this instance using a 100GB General Purpose SSD. Below are the results:

	Read	Write
Max	N/A	N/A
Average	N/A	N/A
Deviation	N/A	N/A
Min	N/A	N/A

I/O rate testing is conducted with local and block storages attached to the instance. Cloud Mercato uses the well-known open-source tool FIO. To express IOPS the following parametersare used: 4K block, random access, no filesystem (except for write access with root volume and avoidance of cache and buffer.

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Community Insights for

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My Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) macOS instance has slow processing speeds when it invokes, updates, or renders data, or when it runs applications. Or, the macOS instance that I launched with an Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) snapshot has slow performance.

19-03-2025

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Why would I get this error on a dedicated host? Thats what I'm getting for a dedicated mac host - m2.metal. "Failed to start the instance i-092ca07b85cd0a87c Dedicated host h-0c86b2bf6ea52b192 has insufficient capacity to launch the instances in this request."...

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19-03-2024

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19-03-2025

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Why would I get this error on a dedicated mac host - m2.metal. "Failed to start the instance i-092ca07b85cd0a87c Dedicated host h-0c86b2bf6ea52b192 has insufficient capacity to launch the instances in this request."...

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