Amazon EC2 Mac Dedicated hosts now support Host Recovery and Reboot-based host maintenance
Starting today, customers can enable two new capabilities for their EC2 Mac Dedicated Hosts: Host Recovery and Reboot-based Host Maintenance. Host Recovery automatically detects potential hardware issues on Mac Dedicated Hosts and seamlessly migrates Mac instances to a new replacement host, minimizing disruption to workloads. Reboot-based Host Maintenance automatically stops and restarts instances on replacement hosts when scheduled maintenance events occur, eliminating the need for manual intervention during planned maintenance windows. Together, these features significantly enhance the reliability and manageability of EC2 Mac instances, delivering improved uptime for macOS workloads in the cloud while reducing operational overhead and the need for continuous monitoring.
These features are available across all EC2 Mac instance families, including both Intel (x86) and Apple silicon platforms. Customers can access this feature in all AWS regions where EC2 Mac instances are currently supported. To learn more about Host recovery, please visit the documentation here. To learn more about Host maintenance, please visit the documentation here. To learn more about EC2 Mac instances, click here.