Weekend good reads for Apple developers, issue #26

Some interesting articles to spend your weekend on.

And that's it for today. Have a nice weekend!

Amazon announces Developer Preview of AWS SDK for Swift

Amazon announces Developer Preview availability for AWS SDK for Swift. This enables creation of serverless apps built on top of AWS infrastructure.

The AWS SDK for Swift enables developers to build a wide variety of applications in the Swift language with AWS services. In this release, we provide support for 268 services including S3, DynamoDB, and Lambda to name a few. Constructing clients and requests and invoking calls to AWS can be done with async/await syntax using Swift 5.5+

AWS News

AWS News: AWS SDK for Swift (Developer Preview)

GitHub: awslabs / aws-sdk-swift

Amazon EC2 now offers M1 Mac mini

Amazon adds M1 Mac minis to EC2 service for faster build times.

The new instances will be available in two regions (US West – Oregon and US East – North Virginia) for $0.6498 per hour, with support for discounts through AWS’ Savings Plans, too. AWS promises that these new machines offer a “60% better price performance over the x86-based EC2 Mac instances for iPhone and Mac app build workloads.”

TechCrunch

AWS News Blog: Use New Amazon EC2 M1 Mac Instances to Build & Test Apps for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Apple TV

Reference: Amazon's EC2 Service to Offer M1 Mac Mini Instances for Faster Build Times,
AWS brings M1 Mac minis to its cloud