Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances
Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available (GA). M4 Mac instances offer up to 20% better application build performance compared to M2 Mac instances, while M4 Pro Mac instances deliver up to 15% better application build performance compared to M2 Pro Mac instances. These instances are ideal for building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari.
M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are powered by the AWS Nitro System, providing up to 10 Gbps network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) storage bandwidth. M4 Mac instances are built on Apple M4 Mac Mini computers featuring 10‑core CPU, 10‑core GPU, 24GB unified memory, and 16‑core Neural Engine. M4 Pro Mac instances feature a 14‑core CPU, 20‑core GPU, 48GB unified memory, and 16‑core Neural Engine. Both instance families come with a new 2TB instance store volume per EC2 Mac Dedicated Host, providing low latency storage for improved caching and build/test performance.
M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances enable Apple developers to migrate their most demanding build and test workloads onto AWS and run significantly more tests in parallel using multiple Xcode simulators. This accelerates application iterations and reduces time to market. Customers now have access to the most advanced Apple silicon Macs on AWS to meet their requirements, while also enabling them to modernize their Apple CI/CD with dozens of AWS services. M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances support macOS Sequoia version 15.6 and newer AMIs (Amazon Machine Images).
Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon). To learn more or get started, see our launch blog, Amazon EC2 Mac Instances or visit the EC2 Mac documentation reference.