Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac Instances Launch for High-Performance Apple Development

AWS released M3 Ultra Mac instances powered by Apple M3 Ultra hardware to support demanding Apple platform build and test workloads in the cloud.

By Oliver Grant · Editorial pseudonym · 2026-05-14 · 1 min read

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These next-generation Mac instances feature Apple M3 Ultra Mac Studio computers with 28-core CPUs, 60-core GPUs, and 32-core Neural Engines, along with 256GB of unified memory. Compared to the previous M4 Max Mac instances, M3 Ultra offers substantially increased compute and memory resources, accelerating Xcode simulation and on-device machine learning tasks.

Integrated with the AWS Nitro System, M3 Ultra Mac instances provide up to 10 Gbps network bandwidth and enhanced Amazon EBS throughput. They are aimed at developers targeting iOS, macOS, iPadOS, tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, and Safari applications, currently available in selected US regions.

Source & further reading

Announcing general availability of Amazon EC2 M3 Ultra Mac instances ↗

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