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AWS have pretty heavily modified "pc"s they use to fit all their requirements for most of their servers. I dont see Amazon going out and buying 50.000 Mac mini
by ThinkBeat 6y ago
AWS have pretty heavily modified "pc"s they use to fit all their requirements for most of their servers.
I dont see Amazon going out and buying 50.000 Mac minis and racking them.
Do you think Apple is delivering heavily customised and rackable "Mac mini" servers to AWS?
Or is there a 3rd party converting Mac mini suitable for AWS.
Or is AWS actually rack Mac mini computers?
I wonder if this will be an AWS exclusive for N amount of time?
I am sure other cloud providers will want their own Mac "servers" now.
- shiftpgdn 6y agoRentable Mac Mini (or Mac colo of all flavors) has been a thing for easily 15+ years. https://www.macstadium.com/ https://www.macstadium.com/ is one of the original providers if I recall correctly. I remember renting a macmini for a month when the app store on ios first came out because I couldn't afford a macbook. AWS is largely taking other peoples efforts and putting the Amazon brand on them.
- philliphaydon 6y agoAWS probably would have had them sooner if it wasn’t for the t&c...
- easton 6y agoThe video in the article literally shows trucks and pallets of retail Mac Minis being unloaded to be installed into a data center, so I think that’s exactly what they are doing. I doubt Apple would commission custom hardware for AWS when VMWare has most likely been begging for years to no avail.
- barkingcat 6y ago"I dont see Amazon going out and buying 50.000 Mac minis and racking them" ... you usually don't see this kind of thing unless you work at the actual place, or you have a colo where Amazon also hosts stuff. Unless you work there, you don't actually know whether they buy that number. In fact, I bet you they do buy over tens of thousands of Macs of all kinds every quarter, if only to satisfy the demand for hardware for engineers and for testing purposes.