AWS Brings macOS Remote Access to the Cloud with Teradici CAS

Apple developers can now remotely access macOS through the Amazon Web Service (AWS) Cloud with the security, performance and color fidelity needed to develop high-quality digital content.

Thanks to an AWS collaboration with Teradici, you can now use Teradici CAS for ultra-secure remote visualization of desktop applications from Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) or Marketplace Mac instances using the PCoIP® protocol to transfer only pixels. Corporate assets remain securely located within industry-compliant, on-premises environments or hybrid architectures. Apple developers can now quickly provision, launch, scale and remotely access macOS environments within minutes and extend toolkits with seamless access to dozens of AWS services.

Complete flexibility to choose your OS

AWS and Teradici are working together to provide flexibility to choose different operating systems through AWS Marketplace, based on your application needs—whether it’s Windows, Linux, and now, macOS. If your choice is the Mac, you can now run and remotely access on-demand macOS workloads in the cloud, extending the flexibility, scalability, and cost benefits of AWS to all Apple developers, even game developers and artists who rely on the highest performance experience.

Use Amazon EC2 Mac instances for your macOS build infrastructure and modernize your CI/CD by using other AWS services to build, iterate and release apps faster. AWS and Teradici give you complete flexibility to remotely access your Mac through the AWS Cloud with amazing performance and color fidelity. Simply access a high-performance remote developer desktop by deploying Teradici CAS for macOS on your Amazon EC2 Mac instance, and you can work from anywhere.

With EC2 Mac instances, developers creating apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Safari can provision and access macOS environments within minutes, dynamically scale capacity as needed, and benefit from AWS’s pay-as-you-go pricing.

x86-based EC2 Mac instances are built on Apple Mac mini computers featuring Intel® Core™ i7 processors and are powered by the AWS Nitro System. Learn more and get started with x86-based EC2 Mac instances here.

Where can I get Teradici CAS?

AWS Marketplace provides the ability to consume licensing on a per hour cost or you can elect for a stand-alone license for an annual agreement to run on EC2. Marketplace for macOS is available now here.

To find out more, visit the Teradici AWS Marketplace. For annual licenses, contact Teradici Sales.

Watch for our next blog post to learn more about the technical benefits and dive into architectural diagrams, coming soon.