The key pair is needed to establish an SSH connection to the system. If you have one already in place you should be able to select it out of the dropdown, if not create a new one. I would recommend to go with at least 100GiB.Īfter setting the required storage size, you can Review and Launch the system.ĪWS EC2 will ask you to create or select a security key pair. Xcode 12 by itself needs roughly 40GiB of storage to run so allocate enough storage to run the development tools as well as for your projects.
By default EC2 provides a SSD storage of 30 GiB which isn’t sufficient enough if you want to install Xcode and the SAP SDK for iOS. The auto placement option should tell EC2 to choose any available dedicated host to launch the instance on, as I’ve mentioned this didn’t work for me so choosing the specific host will definitely work.Ĭlick on Next: Add Storage to change the allocated storage size for the instance.
You can leave all the values as is, the only change you need to do (at least I needed too) is to change the Host from Use auto-placement to your previously allocated host. Īfter you’ve selected the macOS version of your choice, some additional configurations need to be done in order to use this as a proper development environment.Ĭhoose the tal instance type and click on Configure Instance Details to continue. Navigate to Instances > Launch Instance to choose between macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and macOS Mojave 10.14.6.
In this blog post I want to show you how easy the setup is and how you get the SAP SDK for iOS installed.
Through a VNC connection you can connect to a running tal instance with macOS Catalina 10.15.7 or macOS Mojave 10.14.6 being installed.īecause AWS EC2 is using physical Apple Mac mini machines instead of virtual machines you can get the full OS experience you need for the development of apps. With the Amazon EC2 Mac instance being available for consumption a new opportunity has been opened up for you to develop amazing business iOS apps for your business or customers.