If you haven't you may want to consider https://www.macincloud.com/ where you can rent it for $1 per hour when you need. Your use case seems very suitable for that. It is roughly same price point as AWS but can stretch your dollars longer vs AWS 24 hour upfront.
If you’re not testing/using it the rest of the time, doesn’t that affect the quality? Dog-fooding is usually a better idea, right?
Re:Amazon EC2 Mac Instances
by LeifCarrotson on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @11:21PM
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Sure, but then I'd have to use an iPhone. The machine is the main thing to my customers, the app is just a tool for monitoring its status and the Android app and webserver shows the same information.
Also, I'm more likely to transition to this because I'm familiar with AWS, I didn't know MacStadium existed before this thread.
If that's their target market (and not someone who wants a scalable Mac build farm available 24/7 and doesn't care about costs), then it makes sense - I pay a lot less than the price of a Mini to rent it 4 days a year, if Amazon can find 90 other people who want to do the same, all of us are better off.