Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs release notes - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
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Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs release notes

The following information provides details about the packages included by default in the EC2 macOS AMIs and summarizes the changes for each EC2 macOS AMI release.

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Default packages included in Amazon EC2 macOS AMIs

The following table describes packages that are included by default in the EC2 macOS AMIs.

Packages Release notes

EC2 macOS Init

https://github.com/aws/ec2-macos-init/tags

EC2 macOS Utils

https://github.com/aws/ec2-macos-utils/tags

Amazon SSM Agent

https://github.com/aws/amazon-ssm-agent/releases

AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) version 2

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws/aws-cli/v2/CHANGELOG.rst

Command Line Tools for Xcode

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes

Homebrew

https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/releases

EC2 Instance Connect

https://github.com/aws/aws-ec2-instance-connect-config/releases

Safari

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-notes

Amazon EC2 macOS AMI updates

The following table describes changes included in the EC2 macOS AMI releases. Note that some changes apply to all EC2 macOS AMIs, whereas others apply to only a subset of these AMIs.

EC2 macOS AMI updates

Release Changes
2024.06.07
All AMIs

  • Updated Homebrew to 4.3.1-1

  • Updated aws-cli to 2.15.56

  • Updated amazon-ssm-agent to 3.3.380.0-1

Release of macOS Sonoma 14.5 (all Mac instances)
Release of macOS Ventura 13.6.7 (all Mac instances)
Release of macOS Monterey 12.7.5 (all Mac instances)
2024.04.12
All AMIs

  • Updated Homebrew to 4.2.16-1

  • Updated aws-cli to 2.15.36

Release of macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 (all Mac instances)
Release of macOS Ventura 13.6.6 (all Mac instances)
For macOS Monterey (all Mac instances)