{"id":249673,"date":"2026-05-18T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/aws-found-a-way-around-apples-mac-studio-shortage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T14:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T18:40:11","slug":"aws-found-a-way-around-apples-mac-studio-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/aws-found-a-way-around-apples-mac-studio-shortage\/","title":{"rendered":"AWS found a way around Apple\u2019s Mac Studio shortage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/apple-intelligence\/articles\/aws-found-way-around-apple-220500465.html\">AWS found a way around Apple\u2019s Mac Studio shortage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/apple-intelligence\/articles\/aws-found-way-around-apple-220500465.html\">https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/apple-intelligence\/articles\/aws-found-way-around-apple-220500465.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 18:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"tech.yahoo.com\">tech.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white\/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Credit: Future<\/p>\n<ul class=\"col-body mb-4\">\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><strong>AWS secures rare Mac Studios while ordinary Apple customers remain completely locked out<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><strong>Apple\u2019s hidden 256GB Mac Studio configuration surfaced through Amazon\u2019s cloud infrastructure unexpectedly<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"list-mb ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\"><strong>AI developers exhausted Mac Studio inventory running local language models across expensive Apple hardware<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acquired a significant number of Apple&#8217;s Mac Studio computers, a workstation-grade desktop regular consumers currently cannot buy due to ongoing RAM shortages.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">According to Apple, prospective buyers of this device will have to wait for over two months before the device arrives, as AI enthusiasts have been snapping up available stock to run local language models like OpenClaw, further constraining the already tight supply.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple currently sells the Mac Studio with a maximum of 96GB of unified memory for regular customers &#8211; however AWS has announced it is now offering a cloudy M3 Ultra configuration with 256GB of unified memory a specific configuration which does not appear as an option on Apple&#8217;s consumer website.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading-mb col-body heading-text-style font-bold charcoal-color\">AWS taps into scarce Mac Studio supply<\/h2>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The Mac Studio that AWS has racked and stacked features Apple&#8217;s most powerful M3 Ultra system on a chip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The cloudy M3 Ultra runs on actual Mac Studios that pack a 28-core CPU, a 60-core GPU, and a 32-core Neural Engine.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">AWS recommends its cloud Macs as an ideal platform for developers to build and test applications for all of Apple&#8217;s operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">This includes support for visionOS, the software that powers Apple&#8217;s widely unloved Vision Pro virtual reality goggles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Apple allows users to create and run macOS virtual devices, but only on Apple hardware and with just two VMs allowed per host device.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The company also restricts the use of its virtual machines to four specific purposes, including software development, testing, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/apple-intelligence\/articles\/aws-found-way-around-apple-220500465.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWS found a way around Apple\u2019s Mac Studio shortage https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/ai\/apple-intelligence\/articles\/aws-found-way-around-apple-220500465.html Publish Date: 2026-05-18 18:05:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":249674,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/RfY8lM65EEJHkGTtMozuog--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD02NzU-\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/techradar_949\/49dd9cad981f3a3eb280cb26939c7bd4","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[54],"class_list":["post-249673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macintosh","tag-mac-studio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249673"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249675,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249673\/revisions\/249675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}