Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
by hugey010 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @10:46AM
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I've maintained mac mini farms and it is both time consuming and expensive. If it were reasonable to setup and maintain Macs for devops, these offerings probably wouldn't exist.
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Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
by kingnothing on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:00AM
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They would still exist. When a company's entire shop is set up in AWS they want to keep it that way, not buy physical hardware to install in their office, create a VPN to make build pipelines, worry about physical security, etc.
Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
by nucleardog on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @02:24PM
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Yeah, the premium here would be easily justified for us in having a mac colocated with the rest of our infra and it being easy to provision and manage through CloudFormation/APIs just like the rest of our infrastructure.