Jamf Pro now lets IT admins handle AWS Mac situations
Apple-in-the-enterprise options supplier Jamf has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new instruments to let IT admins handle digital EC2 Macs.
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Jamf has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new instruments that permit IT admins utilizing Jamf Pro enroll digital EC2 Macs when they’re provisioned through the AWS portal.
It means even digital Macs can have all the safety, coverage, and entry controls you’d anticipate from the Mac on your property or workplace desk when enrolled.
This is information as a result of?
We know AWS is without doubt one of the world’s largest cloud companies corporations — it has such a significant presence that it’s seen as a “hypervisor.” Amazon started providing Mac situations within the cloud in 2020 and ramped this provide up with the later addition of M1 Mac minis as a service by AWS.
That already means builders can rent each Intel-based and M1-powered Macs, which many use to construct, check, package deal, and log out apps constructed for various Apple platforms. The downside was that when it got here to enterprise-specific apps or information, these cloud-based machines lived in an odd grey zone outdoors of conventional MDM/safety coverage.
That’s high-quality for some AWS customers, however as the worth of non-public information and enterprise intelligence continues to develop in a extremely digital age, many enterprise leaders wanted one thing extra.
What Jamf stated
I caught up with Jamf CEO Dean Hager, who shared a number of insights into the brand new cope with AWS. He defined that Jamf and Amazon received collectively as a result of Amazon discovered its prospects wanted this sort of integration. They wished to have the ability to apply profiles and set up software program and preserve their digital Macs as up to date and managed as their bodily ones — however delivering this wasn’t straightforward as a result of method digital Mac situations labored.
“We have a long history of solving problems,” stated Hager. “So we came up with a an ability to manage the virtual instances that are not dependent on MDM but rather dependent on our own innovations, and now customers are going to be able to … procure and manage virtual Macs.”
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The partnership with Jamf supplies this because it lets IT admins handle these AWS servers simply as they’ll another Mac of their fleet. It means organizations can present managed, trusted entry to their macOS workloads on AWS, permitting extra enterprises to make use of these options.
“We’re excited to continue to push the envelope on what’s possible with cloud-first technologies centered around the Apple platform,” stated Hager.
Why AWS?
AWS prospects already run on-demand workloads within the cloud. These options let builders scale up their obtainable Mac fleet to deal with duties when constructing apps; they’ll merely deliver on a brand new digital Mac in seconds, dynamically, as required.
Customers may consolidate growth of cross-platform Apple, Windows, and Android apps on AWS, resulting in elevated developer productiveness and accelerated time to market. In very primary phrases, which means creating complicated tasks throughout a number of platforms can profit from an enormous fleet of Macs with out the TCO or buying prices. It additionally means they get the horsepower they should get their work executed quick.
In a press release, dataJAR founder James Ridsdale stated: “As a service supplier managing tens of 1000’s of Macs throughout our enterprise prospects, we perceive the worth that Jamf supplies. It allows us to make sure the safety, administration, and seamless onboarding of Apple gadgets into our platform of companies….
“We are excited to see Jamf’s work with AWS to proceed to offer extra choices for organizations who want to undertake a variety of computing choices for his or her workers, contractors, and engineering workflows by the administration of Amazon EC2 Mac virtualized situations. We suppose this might be a compelling resolution for a lot of forms of prospects.”
Get prepared for Apple-in-the-enterprise week
The information comes as we put together for one of many busiest weeks on the Apple-in-the-enterprise calendar, with Jamf internet hosting its personal vibrant Apple admins occasion, JNUC, in San Diego September 27-29.
I additionally anticipate others within the enterprise-focused Apple companies house may have extra information within the coming weeks.
As I’ve remarked earlier than, this intensifying competitors on this aspect of the Apple business means enterprise customers have by no means had it so good when contemplating platform diversification. Not to say that the wave of Apple deployments can solely develop even taller as soon as Apple introduces new Macs, maybe as quickly as subsequent month.
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