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I found that to start with apple app development you need to have some sort of Mac. I wonder if one may load an image of an Mac OSx on an Amazon EC2 instance for this purpose.

olix20
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    You can now host macOS instances in Amazon AWS EC2: https://www.theverge.com/2020/12/1/21754843/amazon-mac-os-aws-cloud-developers – Stephen Quan Dec 01 '20 at 22:11

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Not going to work. EC2 uses Xen for its virtualization technology, and the chance of a Mac Xen port is pretty much nil, due to Apple's famously tight control over their operating system. Your best bet is probably to pony up for a Mac Mini; they're relatively cheap and could make a good starter dev box.

You want a local one anyway. You'll be running IDEs and a bunch of interactive utilities; latency from using a remote desktop will make everything just that much more difficult.

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  • AWS has moved to a new hypervisor based on KVM and it has dumped the Xen hypervisor – Ali Nov 29 '17 at 02:40