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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by mark242 on Monday November 30, 2020 @11:46PM (#25262409)
CI/CD for iOS, MacOS, and React Native builds. Right now the pricing for Mac instances for builds via Github, Gitlab, Circle, etc are ludicrous. For a certain developer velocity, these instances will probably be much, much cheaper than running builds through the CI/CD SaaS providers.
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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by joana035 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @12:06AM (#25262527)
Sorry, but dedicated hosts are expensive AF, it is not a virtual machine, you pay for the hardware.
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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances by detaro on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @01:02AM (#25262812)
$26 per day according to TC, for a full Mini (6 core i7/32 GB RAM). If you do enough that you can get high utilization that is cheaper than the CI services. (e.g. travis wants close to double for 2 vCore/8GB VMs) EDIT: On the other hand, renting a physical machine at Macstadium is a lot cheaper, so you'll want to have the AWS integration or some flexibility...
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