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If you have a giant pile of data already in AWS, that you need to use on a Mac for a short time, it may make more sense to rent a Mac next to all your existing
by JoshTriplett 6y ago
If you have a giant pile of data already in AWS, that you need to use on a Mac for a short time, it may make more sense to rent a Mac next to all your existing data, rather than paying exorbitant transfer fees to get the data to a Mac elsewhere.
AWS's transfer fees are a massive lock-in.
- tuananh 6y agoexcept this would not be the case. we just need M1 instance from Scaleway or whoever provide it as runner / job executor. not much data egress for those traffic.
- rovr138 6y agoThat's a big assumption on how EVERY company that needs an M1 and uses AWS uses it for
- WrtCdEvrydy 6y agoThe most common use case for a Mac in a business setting is for building iOS applications.
- rovr138 6y agoYou may have to define business. Account managers, web developers, python developers, Julia developers, sysadmin, netsec. All those areas are riddled with Mac.
- treis 6y agoBut none of that code runs on Mac alone. Even if they're developing on a Max their python or Julia or whatever code that they want to run on the cloud will run on Linux. The only real use case out there is building/testing iOS/Mac applications. The only other one I can think of is a Mac only video editing or animation software that you'd prefer to render somewhere besides your laptop.