\nToday 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\u2019s pay-as-you-go pricing. To get started with EC2 Mac instances, visit: https:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/instance-types\/Mac\/<\/a><\/p>\n
This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201130006036\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n Mac mini (Photo: Business Wire)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \nToday, millions of developers rely on Apple\u2019s industry-leading platforms and tools such as Xcode and Swift, and powerful frameworks like Core ML and Metal, to create the world\u2019s 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\u2019s 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.\n<\/p>\n \n\u201cOur customers tell us they would love to have their Apple build environment integrated with AWS services,\u201d said David Brown, Vice President of EC2, at AWS. \u201cWith 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\u2019s industry-leading platforms, rather than procuring and managing the underlying infrastructure.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \n\u201cApple\u2019s thriving community of more than 28 million developers continues to create groundbreaking app experiences that delight customers around the world,\u201d said Bob Borchers, Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing, at Apple. \u201cWith the launch of EC2 Mac instances, we\u2019re thrilled to make development for Apple\u2019s platforms accessible in new ways, and combine the performance and reliability of our world-class hardware with the scalability of AWS.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \nEC2 Mac instances are powered by a combination of Mac mini computers\u2014featuring Intel\u2019s eighth-generation 3.2GHz (4.6GHz turbo) Core i7 processors, 6 physical\/12 logical cores, and 32 GiB of memory\u2014and 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.\n<\/p>\n \nIntuit is a mission-driven, global financial platform company. Its products\u2014including TurboTax, QuickBooks, and Mint\u2014are designed to empower more than 50 million consumer, small business and self-employed customers around the world to improve their financial lives. \u201cEC2 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,\u201d said Pratik Wadher, Vice President of Product Development at Intuit. \u201cWe\u2018re 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\u2019re 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \nSince its founding in 2013, Ring has been on a mission to make neighborhoods safer, together for everyone. \u201cAt Ring, we are committed to making home and neighborhood security accessible and effective for everyone\u2014while working hard to bring communities together,\u201d said Joshua Roth, Chief Technology Officer, at Ring. \u201cEC2 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \nFiLMiC Inc. is the creator of the award-winning mobile cinema camera app, FiLMiC Pro. \u201cWith 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,\u201d said Seth Faxon, iOS Development Manager for FiLMiC. \u201cEC2 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.\u201d\n<\/p>\n About Amazon Web Services<\/b><\/p>\n \nFor 14 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world\u2019s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 175 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, robotics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 77 Availability Zones (AZs) within 24 geographic regions, with announced plans for 12 more Availability Zones and four more AWS Regions in Indonesia, Japan, Spain and Switzerland. Millions of customers\u2014including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies\u2014trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n About Amazon<\/b><\/p>\n \nAmazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com\/about<\/a> and follow @AmazonNews<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n View source version on businesswire.com: <\/span>https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20201130006036\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n \nAmazon.com, Inc. 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