The giant Amazon presented what has been called Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), an Amazon Web Services (AWS) service that will allow us to run macOS instances on the company's services for the first time. It was a very important announcement for many developers who will benefit from the cloud. He also warned that soon there would be compatibility with Mac with M1. In that way it seems that we are, because the compatibility of those instances with macOS Big Sur has just been announced.
Bob Borchers, Apple's Vice President of Product Marketing Worldwide, said, “With the launch of EC2 Mac instances we are excited to make development for Apple platforms accessible in new ways and combine performance and reliability. of our world-class hardware with AWS scalability«. Amazon got down to business and immediately released that capability for macOS Catalina.
Now it does but being compatible with macOS Big Sur. Therefore, customers can run the latest Apple operating system as Amazon Machine Images (AMI) on Mac EC2 instances. Multiple new capabilities and performance improvements are introduced over previous versions of the Mac operating system. For example, we found that Xcod versions 12.5 and later will be supported. Customers can also access Amazon EFS file systems from EC2 instances.
The new macOS Big Sur Amazon machine images They operate from Amazon Web Services at these locations. By the way, macOS Big Sur Amazon Machine Images is backed by the Amazon Elastic Block Store with support for tools including AWS Command Line Interface, Command Line Tools for Xcode, Amazon SSM Agent, and Homebrew.
- Eastern US (Northern Virginia)
- Eastern US (Ohio)
- Western US (Oregon)
- EU (Ireland)
- Pacific Asia (Singapore)
