Posted On: Oct 25, 2023
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Mac instances are now generally available (GA). These instances deliver up to 10% faster performance over the existing M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M2 Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and are built on Apple M2 Mac Mini computers featuring 8 core CPU, 10 core GPU, 24 GiB 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 Apple developers to increase parallel testing using multiple Xcode simulators and further expanding customers’ selection of Apple silicon Macs on AWS to migrate their memory-intensive build and test workloads. M2 Mac instances can be integrated with dozens of AWS services such as Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), AWS Systems Manager Agent (SSM Agent), and Elastic Load Balancing (ELB).
Amazon EC2 Mac instances are uniquely enabled by the AWS Nitro System through high-speed Thunderbolt connections, offering these Mac mini computers as fully integrated and managed compute instances with up to 10 Gbps of VPC network bandwidth and up to to 8 Gbps of Amazon EBS storage bandwidth. EC2 M2 Mac instances support macOS Ventura version 13.2 and later as AMIs (Amazon Machine Images).
EC2 M2 Mac instances are available in the US East (N. Virginia and Ohio) and US West (Oregon) AWS Regions. To learn more or get started, see Amazon EC2 Mac Instances or visit the EC2 Mac documentation reference.