Amazons cloudy Macs cost $2599 a day 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Other Mac hosts are rather cheaper. And Azure has had cloudy Macs for months. But AWS still has a play here If you plan to use one of Amazon Web Services’ new bare-metal Mac instances in its cloud for more than 77 days a year, you may be better off just buying the Mac Mini instead.…
Date: 2020-12-02
URL: https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2020/12/02/aws_ec2_mac_pricing/
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