General Availability of Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances for macOS

I find it really funny that they apparently just bought a lot of Mac Minis and put them into racks. Not even Amazon could negotiate a special build.

When I was in hardware business, we were always eager to make customized builds. Even if someone just ordered a couple hundred PCs. If the customer didn't need the speakers, we could leave them out, and split the cost saving between us and them.

Apple doesn't need the cash, but there is no need to leave it on the table, and it seems in their interest that Amazon has this service. At the very least, Apple could leave out the cases, but maybe they could even build a custom rack. No doubt they have something internally for their own build services that need macOS.

It amuses me to think some trainee at Amazon has to unbox all the Mac Minis and throw away the unused accessories...

Hetzner has been offering this for a while. Worth a shot :) https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/mac-mini-m1

Good news for automating the testing of the iOS apps...

Is there really no choice of OS?