November 19, 2020

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AWS reels the Mac mini into its cloud and disrupts niche market

AWS reels the Mac mini into its cloud and disrupts niche market

The stakes were raised considerably this week for industry players in the Mac mini hosting market. Amazon Web Services Inc. announced on Monday that it would bring the Mac mini into its cloud. This means that Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud Mac instances will allow customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the AWS cloud for [] The post AWS reels the Mac mini into its cloud and disrupts niche mark

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Author: Mark Albertson

Date: 2020-12-02

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