Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Develop, build, test, and sign Apple apps on Amazon EC2

Why Amazon EC2 Mac Instances?

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances allow you to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. By using Amazon EC2 Mac instances, you can create apps for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari. You can provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from pay-as-you-go pricing.

To get started with EC2 Mac instances, please see Amazon EC2 User Guide or visit the Amazon EC2 macOS FAQs to learn more. 

Supported Amazon EC2 Mac instances

Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances

Amazon EC2 M2 Pro Mac Instances are built on Apple M2 Pro Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro system. M2 Pro Mac instances combine native Arm64 macOS environments with 32GiB of RAM, delivering up to 35% faster performance compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads. EC2 M2 Pro Mac instances support macOS version 13.2 and later as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Amazon EC2 M2 Mac Instances

Amazon EC2 M2 Mac Instances are built on Apple M2 Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. M2 Mac instances combine native Arm64 macOS environments with 24GiB of RAM, delivering up to 10% faster performance compared to EC2 M1 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads. EC2 M2 Mac instances support macOS version 13.2 and later as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Mac Instances

Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Mac Instances are built on Apple M1 Ultra Mac Studio computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. M1 Ultra Mac instances combine native Arm64 macOS environments with 128GiB of RAM. EC2 M1 Ultra Mac instances support macOS Ventura (version 13) and later as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances

Amazon EC2 M1 Mac instances are built on Apple M1 Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. These instances deliver up to 60% better price performance over x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iOS and macOS application build workloads. EC2 M1 Mac instances enable Arm64 macOS environments for the first time on AWS, and support macOS Big Sur (version 11) and later as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

x86-based EC2 Mac instances

x86-based EC2 Mac instances are built on Apple Mac mini computers, featuring Intel Core i7 processors, and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. These Mac instances support macOS Big Sur (version 11) and later as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

Overview of Amazon EC2 Mac Instances

Get started with Amazon EC2 Mac instances quickly

Visit our GitHub repository for helpful technical documents, guides, videos, and more. Learn how to setup Apple developer environments, build CI/CD pipelines, or test your Jamf workflows on x86 and Apple silicon-based EC2 Mac instances.