Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac Instances
8 months ago
- #Apple
- #Cloud Computing
- #AWS
- Amazon EC2 M4 and M4 Pro Mac instances are now generally available, offering enhanced performance for iOS and macOS application builds.
- M4 Mac instances feature Apple M4 chips with 10-core CPU, 10-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 24 GB unified memory, delivering up to 20% better performance than M2 instances.
- M4 Pro Mac instances come with M4 Pro chips, 14-core CPU, 20-core GPU, 16-core Neural Engine, and 48 GB unified memory, offering up to 15% better performance than M2 Pro instances.
- Both instance types include 2 TB of local storage for improved caching and build performance, supporting macOS Sonoma version 15.6 and later.
- Instances integrate with AWS services like AWS CodeBuild, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS CloudFormation, and Amazon CloudWatch for seamless development workflows.
- Launching instances can be done via AWS Management Console, AWS CLI, or AWS SDKs, with detailed steps provided for each method.
- Xcode can be installed on instances using tools like xcodeinstall, with recommendations for EBS volume sizes (minimum 200 GB for development).
- Instances are available in US East (N. Virginia) and US West (Oregon), with more regions planned, and are billed per second with a 24-hour minimum allocation period.
- The instances are suitable for CI/CD pipelines, ML inference workloads, and development across Apple platforms like iOS, macOS, and more.