How to run Mac OS on AWS EC2 instances

Karthikeyan Mohan
3 min readDec 5, 2020

I am sure lot of people were in the same boat as I was, hoping that one fine day we would be able to provision macOS in the cloud.

In re:Invent 2020, AWS announced support for EC2 Mac instances that enable customers to run on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud for the first time, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers.

In this article, I plan to walk through step by step instructions on how to configure EC2 based Mac instance and how to log into it.

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Karthikeyan Mohan

AWS Certified Solutions Architect/Tech Enthusiast/Machine Learning and Data Science enthusiast