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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by skohan on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:06PM (#25562106)
It would be kind of crazy to imagine, if the M-series processor for the Mac Pro is among the best performing CPUs in the world - which it may turn out to be - that these processors would be virtually inaccessible in the server space in any relevant way. It seems like something which should not result from a free market.

I wonder how "usage" is defined here: for instance, if I run a managed service on a fleet of Macs in the cloud, which serves many end customers from each machine, is this allowed under the terms?

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Re:How AWS Added Apple Mac Mini Nodes to EC2 by ghaff on Monday December 28, 2020 @02:27PM (#25562329)
>if I run a managed service on a fleet of Macs in the cloud, which serves many end customers from each machine, is this allowed under the terms?

IANAL (and haven't read the full EULA) but probably. The 24 hour restriction seems to apply to leasing. I would assume that running a multi-tenant managed service (or, for that matter, serving web pages) from a Mac would not be seen as leasing.

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