Posted On: Jan 29, 2024
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M2 Pro Mac instances are now generally available (GA) in US East (N. Virginia) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). EC2 M2 Mac instances are now GA in Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney). Customers now have access to additional regions with Apple silicon hardware, enabling them to run macOS workloads in regions with pre-existing networking configurations, satisfy data residency requirements, and ensure high availability and continuity of operations with multi-region/multi-availability zone (AZ) architecture.
M2 Pro and M2 Mac instances deliver up to 35% and 10% faster performance, respectively, over M1 Mac instances when building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari. M2 Pro Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System and are built on Apple M2 Pro Mac Mini computers featuring 12 core CPU, 19 core GPU, 32 GiB of memory, and 16 core Apple Neural Engine. 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.
With this expansion, EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances are available across US East (N.Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. EC2 M2 Mac instances are available across US East (N.Virginia, Ohio), US West (Oregon), Europe (Frankfurt) and Asia Pacific (Sydney) regions. To learn more or get started, see Amazon EC2 Mac Instances or visit the EC2 Mac documentation reference.