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mac2.metal

EC2 Instance

Bare metal macOS instance with 8 CPU cores and 4 GPU cores (Apple M1), 16 GiB memory, and 10 Gbps networking. M1-based Mac mini for Apple silicon application development.

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Last Updated On: December 17, 2024
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Operating Systems Supported by
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Benchmark Test Results for
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CPU Encryption Speed Benchmarks

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

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I/O Performance

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

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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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iOS applications are fully dependent on XCode that only supports macOS platforms, also using containers or virtual machines is nearly impossible because of XCode installation size (~32GB).

19-03-2025
docker, development

Mac instances can run one of the following operating systems:- macOS Mojave (version 10.14) (x86 Mac Instances only) macOS Catalina (version 10.15) (x86 Mac Instances only) macOS Big Sur (version 11) macOS Monterey (version 12) The mac2.metal instances are powered by M1 Apple Silicon processors.

19-03-2022

I'm following this blog: but got such an error: The instance family 'mac2' is not supported.

19-03-2022

Thank you! New to the mac instances on AWS. This makes sense.

19-03-2022

I need to test something on MacOS specifically (which the bulk of the team here at Forem uses for their development environments). Thankfully, it's reasonably straightforward to spin up temporary-ish Macs in the cloud with AWS's EC2, including with secure graphical access over VNC, so let's do a bit of a lightning round (or as close to one as we can get - this is still somewhat of an elaborate dance!) setting such a thing up.

Forem
19-09-2023
development

And you can share the instances using AWS Resource Access Manager.

19-01-2021

It supports AutoScaling

19-01-2021

It can report CPU metrics to CloudWatch.

19-01-2021

It lives in your VPC because it is an EC2 Instance, so you can access many other services.

19-01-2021

The mac2.metal costs 40% less compared to the mac1.metal

19-01-2021
cost_savings

AWS announced EC2 macOS instances based on the Intel CPU on 30 November 2020. After a year and a half, the M1 Mac Instances arrived (7 July 2022).

19-01-2021

As of July 2022, mac2.metal is not supported by Host Resource Groups. Therefore you cannot use mac2.metal Instances in Auto Scaling Groups.

19-01-2021

For EBS, it supports the attachment of up to 10 volumes for mac2.

19-01-2021

The mac2.metal instances are powered by M1 Apple Silicon processors. 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, 16 core Apple Neural Engine | 10 Gbps Network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth

19-01-2021
memory_usage, benchmarking

AWS announced EC2 macOS instances based on the Intel CPU on 30 November 2020. After a year and a half, the M1 Mac Instances arrived (7 July 2022).

19-01-2021

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
benchmarking

I need to test something on MacOS specifically (which the bulk of the team here at Forem uses for their development environments). Thankfully, it's reasonably straightforward to spin up temporary-ish Macs in the cloud with AWS's EC2, including with secure graphical access over VNC, so let's do a bit of a lightning round (or as close to one as we can get - this is still somewhat of an elaborate dance!) setting such a thing up.

Forem
19-09-2023
development

I'm following this blog: but got such an error: The instance family 'mac2' is not supported.

2 years ago

Mac instances can run one of the following operating systems:- macOS Mojave (version 10.14) (x86 Mac Instances only) macOS Catalina (version 10.15) (x86 Mac Instances only) macOS Big Sur (version 11) macOS Monterey (version 12) The mac2.metal instances are powered by M1 Apple Silicon processors. 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM, 16 core Apple Neural Engine | 10 Gbps Network and 8 Gbps EBS bandwidth The Instance must be placed onto a Dedicated Host because these are physical Apple Mac minis. mac2.metal is not supported by Host Resource Groups. Therefore you cannot use mac2.metal Instances in Auto Scaling Groups.

2 years ago
memory_usage

It supports AutoScaling

19-01-2021

It can report CPU metrics to CloudWatch.

19-01-2021

And you can share the instances using AWS Resource Access Manager.

19-01-2021

It lives in your VPC because it is an EC2 Instance, so you can access many other services.

19-01-2021

The mac2.metal costs 40% less compared to the mac1.metal

19-01-2021
cost_savings

AWS announced EC2 macOS instances based on the Intel CPU on 30 November 2020. After a year and a half, the M1 Mac Instances arrived (7 July 2022).

19-01-2021

And you can share the instances using AWS Resource Access Manager.

19-01-2021

It supports AutoScaling

19-01-2021

It can report CPU metrics to CloudWatch.

19-01-2021

It lives in your VPC because it is an EC2 Instance, so you can access many other services.

19-01-2021

The mac2.metal costs 40% less compared to the mac1.metal

19-01-2021
cost_savings

AWS announced EC2 macOS instances based on the Intel CPU on 30 November 2020. After a year and a half, the M1 Mac Instances arrived (7 July 2022).

19-01-2021
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