Amazon Web Services announces general availability of Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, powered by the latest Mac Studio hardware. Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances are the next-generation EC2 Mac instances, that enable Apple developers to migrate their most demanding build and test workloads onto AWS. These instances are ideal for building and testing applications for Apple platforms such as iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari.
Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances offer up to 25% better application build performance compared to Amazon EC2 M1 Ultra Mac instances. M4 Max 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. These instances are built on Apple M4 Max Mac Studio computers featuring a 16-core CPU, 40-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 128GB of unified memory.
Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon). To learn more about Amazon EC2 M4 Max Mac instances, visit the Amazon EC2 Mac page.
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Source: Amazon Web Services
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It’s great that AWS is now supporting the latest Mac hardware for EC2 instances. However, I’m curious about how the pricing compares to previous Mac instances and whether there will be a noticeable performance boost for large-scale iOS apps.