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mac2 EC2 instance family

Apple M1 at 3.2 GHz, arm64, 8 vCPUs, 16 GiB

Prices Description Specs Performance ranking Available Regions Prices by region
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mac2 prices per hour on macOS, each type in its cheapest region
Type vCPU Memory On-demand 24-hour minimum24 h min. Region
mac2.metal8 vCPU, 16 GiB, us-east-2 8 16 GiB $0.6500 $15.60 us-east-2

Per hour, in each type's cheapest region. Mac instances run on EC2 Dedicated Hosts, billed per second with a 24-hour minimum: the minimum is what a host costs for its first 24 hours. No spot: AWS sells no spot Mac instances. Every region is under Prices by region.

The MAC2 instance family, generally available since July 2022, is powered by Apple Silicon M1 processors with 8 vCPUs and a 16-core Apple Neural Engine. The mac2.metal instance type is a physical Mac mini, uniquely enabled by the AWS Nitro System for cloud integration. It provides 10 Gbps of network bandwidth and 8 Gbps of EBS storage bandwidth, supporting up to 10 attached EBS volumes. These dedicated host instances are ideal for building, testing, and signing applications for Apple platforms.

Written by Gemini from web sources and not checked: the specs and prices on this page come from AWS.

Instance Types
mac2.metal
vCPUs
8
Memory
16 GiB
Architecture
arm64
Processor
Apple M1
Sustained clock
3.2 GHz
Specs of each type
Type vCPU Memory Local storage Network EBS
mac2.metal 8 16 GiB EBS only 10 10

Network and EBS: peak bandwidth in Gbit/s, with the bandwidth the type sustains when it is lower. Local storage: the instance store, in decimal GB as AWS sizes it.

Ranked by PassMark single-thread score
All x86_64 arm64
#1
m8azn, x8aedz
4257
#3
m8a, c8a, hpc8a, r8a
3803 3801–3803
#7
m8i, m8ib, m8id, m8in, m8idb, m8idn, m8ine, m8i-flex, c8i, c8i-flex, c8ib, c8id, c8in, c8ine, r8i, r8i-flex, r8ib, r8id, r8idb, r8idn, r8in, t8i, x8i
3271 3243–3271
#30
i7i, r7iz
3115 3105–3115
#32
m7a, c7a, c7i, hpc7a, r7a
2955 2875–2955
#37
m7i, r7i
2816 2763–2816
#39
c7i-flex
2700
#40
m6a, m5zn, m7i-flex, c6a, hpc6a, i7ie, r6a, x2iezn
2596 2549–2596
#48
m9g, m9gd, c9g, c9gd, r9g, r9gd
2475 2469–2475
#54
m6i, m6id, m6in, m6idn, c6i, c6id, c6in, hpc6id, i4i, r6i, r6id, r6idn, r6in, x2idn, x2iedn, z1d
2303 2269–2303
#70
c5a, c5ad, c5d
2034 1995–2034
#73
m8g, m8gb, m8gd, m8gn, c5, c5n, c8g, c8gb, c8gd, c8gn, i8g, i8ge, r8g, r8gb, r8gd, r8gn, x8g
1945 1896–1945
#90
m5d
1853
#91
m5dn, c4, r5dn, r5n, t2, t3
1777 1746–1777
#97
m5, m5n, i3en, r5, r5b, r5d
1703 1686–1703
#103
m4, c3, i3
1625 1582–1625
#106
m7g, m7gd, c7g, c7gd, c7gn, hpc7g, r3, r4, r7g, r7gd
1560 1525–1560
#116
m5a, m5ad, r5a, r5ad, t3a
1414 1388–1414
#121
m6g, m6gd, c6g, c6gd, c6gn, g5g, i4g, im4gn, is4gen, r6g, r6gd, t4g, x2gd
1105 1094–1105

Not benchmarked yet 53

These families have no PassMark single-thread score yet, so they are not ranked.

a1, c1, d2, d3, d3en, dl2q, f2, g4dn, g5, g6, g6e, g6f, g7, g7e, gr6, gr6f, h1, i2, inf1, inf2, m1, m2, m3, mac-m3ultra, mac-m4, mac-m4max, mac-m4pro, mac1, mac2, mac2-m1ultra, mac2-m2, mac2-m2pro, p3dn, p4d, p4de, p5, p5en, p6-b200, p6-b300, t1, trn1, trn1n, u-3tb1, u-6tb1, u7i-12tb, u7i-6tb, u7i-8tb, u7in-16tb, u7in-24tb, u7in-32tb, vt1, x1, x1e

5 regions with a price in the last 7 days. Select up to 4 to compare them in the price history charts under Prices by region.

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Each type's regions on macOS, cheapest first, with the same figures as the Prices table, and its price history: the daily mean of every zone and pricing run, over the last 15 UTC days. Each price column is tinted from its cheapest region (green) to its most expensive (red).

mac2.metal8 vCPU, 16 GiB, 5 regions
mac2.metal prices per hour on macOS, by region, cheapest first
Region On-demand
us-east-2 Ohio $0.6500
us-west-2 Oregon $0.6500
us-east-1 N. Virginia $0.6500
eu-west-1 Ireland $0.7160
ap-southeast-1 Singapore $0.7790
On-demand. UTC days.
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