An EC2 dedicated host reserves a Mac mini for your usage. There is no hypervisor involved, and you get full bare metal performance of the underlying Mac mini.
EC2 Mac instances let you scale your build and test fleets of Macs, paying as you go. It connects to your Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), boot from Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) volumes, and leverage EBS snapshots, security groups and other AWS services. EC2 Mac instances are dedicated Mac mini computers attached through Thunderbolt to the AWS Nitro System, which lets the Mac mini appear and behave like another EC2 instance. The introduction of EC2 Mac instances brought the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers. Today, we’re announcing the preview of a new EC2 M1 Mac instance. Last year at AWS re:Invent, Jeff Barr wrote about the exciting availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) Mac instances. 14 November 2022: This blog has been updated to remove the link to the preview form.
