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Amazon AWS will soon add support for the M1 hardware to the macOS EC2 managed offering announced a few weeks ago. AWS also offers free credits to prominent Open
by alien_ 6y ago
Amazon AWS will soon add support for the M1 hardware to the macOS EC2 managed offering announced a few weeks ago. AWS also offers free credits to prominent Open Source projects.
It's not available yet but it should be a good option once they become available, you can immediately start the process of applying for the credits.
This way you would get access to the required hardware without any costs and without having to maintain it. They are designed from the ground up towards such CI/development use cases.
You can also use the same credits for getting access to Intel and ARM Linux, as well as Windows EC2 instances. This may improve your project's CI and build times.
Disclaimer: I work at AWS.
- uncledave 6y agoThis is no use unless you reduce the minimum tenancy. Might as well buy a Mac Mini and shove it on a shelf.
- alien_ 6y agoI'm not working closely with the Mac EC2 nor Open Source departments, so I may be wrong but the project should get credits covering a certain monthly bill, the amount would be requested on application for the credits. It shouldn't matter what type of instances are launched and the credits cover any other services, not just the EC2 compute, as long as the bills are less than the monthly credits.
- sgao08 6y agoUse cases like this are far more than you can imagine. The longer I work for AWS the more I realize this...
- barkingcat 6y agowhat if the free credits cover 24x7 tenancy