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Broken AWS macOS servers alert :woozy_aws: Many Intel Mac bare-metal servers (mac1.metal) are broken due to old incompatible firmware (AWS has a custom management system but firmware upgrade is broken right now). Apple Silicon Macs (mac2.metal) seem to work well. On Intel, use these supported versions only.

This firmware problem has existed a month or more, but is still completely undocumented to my best knowledge. It's a Gacha game right now: "pay $20 to allocate a server that can run macOS 13, for at least 24 hours (macOS EULA, thanks Apple!). If it doesn't work, pay $20 again and try another one..." I'm now trying to get refunded.