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Use Amazon EC2 Mac instances for building, testing, signing, and publishing applications for Apple hardware!

Welcome to Amazon EC2 Mac Instances!

Amazon EC2 Mac Instances enable 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. With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.

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. They offer a choice of macOS Catalina (10.15), macOS Big Sur (11), and macOS Monterey (12) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). M1-based EC2 Mac instances are built on Apple M1 Mac mini computers and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. EC2 M1 Mac instances enable Arm64 macOS environments for the first time on AWS and support macOS Big Sur (11) and macOS Monterey (12) as Amazon Machine Images (AMIs).

This repository should help you get up-and-running with EC2 Mac Instances. See anything missing? Please open an issue, or if you have something to add, please open a PR. Thanks! We're glad you're here.

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Getting Started with Amazon EC2 Mac Instances.

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Much of the work behind EC2 Mac instances is so that they look, feel, and act like any other EC2 instances, within the macOS Software License Agreement. Do note that this SLA applies to any company using macOS - it's not unique to AWS or Amazon!

Start here to get up-and-running with EC2 Mac!

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Ready to go a bit deeper?

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• NEW!! We've added a Games page with how EC2 Mac enables faster game delivery to market.
• We've created an updated collateral page to showcase our blogs, videos, tutorials, and documentation! Take a look!
• EC2 Mac now provides SNS notifications for macOS/bridgeOS updates
• Ready to start an official proof-of-concept (PoC)?
• More to come soon!

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Additional questions?

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Please review the FAQ - and if your question isn't answered there, please open an issue.

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This documentation is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. See the LICENSE file. The sample code within this documentation is made available under the MIT-0 license. See the LICENSE-SAMPLECODE file.