That requires not just powerful CPUs, but high-speed bandwidth and storage as well.Īpparently, AWS thinks it can deliver that now.Īt AWS re:Invent this month, AWS announced its new Outposts service. When I think of Mac users, I think of people doing high-level photo, publishing, and video work. Sure, I saw the programming niche market for Macs, but I'd assumed it would always stay just that, a niche. The small Mac cloud providers charge much less, but if you're an AWS customer you're already used to paying for the assurance of working with the leading public cloud provider and its almost innumerable cloud services. Thus, for every three 8-hour working days, you'll be paying just under $26. These Macs fit snugly in 1U racks and with stats like that, I know many Mac power users will give cloud Macs a try.Īfter the initial setup of 24 hours for just under $26, you'll pay $1.083 per hour, billed by the second. Each tal virtual Mac comes with 12 virtual i7 CPU cores and 32GB of memory. These "bare metal" Macs aren't virtualized instances. With "more than 28 million developers.," according to Bob Borchers, Apple's vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, that's still a lot of users. They're meant for developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Macs, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari. For Linux, you'll require Microsoft Remote Desktop and Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients such as Remmina, FreeRDP, and Vinagre. For Chromebooks, you'll need Microsoft's Remote Desktop 8.
You can do it on macOS, iOS, Android, and even, Chromebooks and Linux machines. Oh, and you won't need a Windows machine to run it on. Next, Microsoft finally said - as I’ve been predicting for years - that instead of just offering Windows as a business DaaS play, it would start selling Windows DaaS subscriptions to home users. Windows PCs? They had a 15% growth rate as everyone who could started working from home.
That's a 90% year-over-year growth in shipments. (I had the timing wrong, but was right in general.) What I didn't see coming were Macs to the cloud.įirst, as for Chromebooks, IDC's latest PC numbers show Chromebooks made up 11% of total PC shipments last quarter. Then I saw Windows moving from PCs to a cloud-based Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) model beginning in 2017. Starting around 2012, I predicted Chromebooks would become a big deal. I've been talking about the future of the "desktop" on the cloud for years now.
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