Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by ruffrey on Monday December 28, 2020 @12:56PM
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Apple has a self host cloud division as well as AWS according to news reports. Unclear if they run on Linux but it seems likely they must, even a bit if using AWS. Theoretically they could probably upload custom AMIs with macOS.
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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by Crash0v3rid3 on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:50PM
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Apple uses GCP as well as AWS.
Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by sl1ck731 on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:12PM
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I don't believe its possible to get macOS (or atleast wasn't) onto an AMI in anyway.
Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2
by rescbr on Monday December 28, 2020 @01:38PM
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I'd say it is possible to run Darwin on AWS, but I have never tried. FreeBSD runs well, so we know that any OS with drivers will boot on AWS.
They're Apple after all, so they can build macOS to boot from a standard environment - UEFI, kernel that doesn't check the copy prevention string on SMBIOS, etc.
Us, mere mortals, are more restricted, as we don't have the keys of the kingdom.