The name of the base system (platform): | Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
Developers: | Amazon |
Date of the premiere of the system: | November, 2020 |
Technology: | Development tools of applications |
2020: Start of a cloud for application development for devices of Apple
At the beginning of December, 2020 Amazon started the cloud service of EC2 Mac Instances focused on developers of a program obepecheniye for IOS-DEVICES. A new solution allows programmers to create and test applications without need to use directly devices from Apple.
The company added Mac Mini support to the cloud service, the new service is available in some regions USA, To Europe (Ireland) and the Pacific Rim (Singapore). Amazon explained that new service for users is not virtualization of the equipment - the company rents and provides to clients access to these Mac Mini computers with such technical characteristics: processor Intel Core i7 (Coffee Lake) of the eighth generation with six computing cores (3.2-4.6 GHz) and 32 Gbytes of RAM. For users access to such cloud services is provided: Amazon Elastic Block Store, AWS Systems Manager, Amazon Elastic File System, Windows Amazon FSx for File Server, Amazon Simple Storage Service.
The macOS Mojave and macOS Catalina operating systems are available to developers, also the company is going to add Big Sur support. For work in a cloud of Amazon connects Mac Mini to the Nitro system for quick access to the Internet and storages.
For use of a new feature developers need to make advance payment in the first 24 hours. Access to macOS will cost $1.083 per hour or slightly less than $26 per day. In case of the long period of lease of Amazon, for example, monthly, it is ready to provide discounts. The cost of use of service is more, than some other cloud providers for access to Mac mini levy, at smaller providers the price can be about $60 or less a month.[1]