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AWS EC2 Mac (Dedicated Host)
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- Free allowance
- USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes
- Verdict
- triala time-boxed or one-time trial, not a recurring allowance
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- request-rateno free allowance: a Mac instance bills on the same on-demand model as any other EC2 instance, with a 24-hour minimum allocation
- Evidence
- reported2 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-06checked 2026-10-22 (live); stale on 2026-11-06
| Free tier | USD 100 of credit on a new account, inside the 6-month free-plan window after which the account closes unit mixed; metered on wall-clock |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Limits | - request-rate (binding) no free allowance: a Mac instance bills on the same on-demand model as any other EC2 instance, with a 24-hour minimum allocation source
not stated |
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| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
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| Egress | not stated |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | unknown |
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| Reliability | no reliability event recorded |
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| Evidence note | reported the EC2 Mac page was read on 2026-10-22 and offers the instance class with no free allowance of its own. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 2
More fields 6
| keep rate | 1.0 |
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| billing model | unclassified |
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| shape | {"vcpu": null,"ram": null,"disk": null,"gpu_class": null,"gpu_count": null,"note": "dedicated Mac mini and Mac Studio hardware"} |
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| session cap | {"wall_clock_min": null,"idle_reap_s": null,"restart_required": false,"note": "Apple's licence forces a 24-hour minimum allocation per dedicated host; the page states no shorter clock"} |
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| free tier kind | none |
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| granularity | {"min_billed_s": 86400,"rounding_s": null} |
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Unknown values 10
- chaining: a source was read and is silent on this field
- egress metered: egress metering was not published
- egress terms: a source was read and is silent on this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- limits note: a source was read and is silent on this field
- per object cap stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- reliability note: nothing of this kind was observed
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: a source was read and is silent on this field
- tooling: a source was read and is silent on this field