Orka on AWS delivers simplicity and scalability to developers building for Apple devices. Spend less time dealing with the complexities of managing macOS and orchestrating your CI workloads on M1 machines and spend more time building innovative apps on AWS.
Ephemeral environments on EC2 Macs
Orka on AWS uses the power of AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) to manage macOS workflows and orchestrate your macOS VMs with Kubectl commands.
Fast startup and portability
Orka images are thin-provisioned and OCI-compliant, making them easy to share and transfer across environments. With Orka, you can launch new macOS VMs in under a minute, compared to 30-45 minutes on bare metal EC2 Mac.
Integrates with you favorite CI tools
Orka provides prebuilt integrations to popular CI tools, such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Gitlab, and more.
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Turn your AWS EC2 Macs into the ephemeral build environments your team needs
Accelerate build and test flows on your AWS EC2 Macs with Orka.
Speed
Often-used images are pre-cached and launch in under 1 second for lightning-fast environment availability.
Scale
Orka brings dynamic resource management to AWS EC2 Macs, giving you the ability to autoscale Mac resources up and down as your team needs them.
Reliability
Orka provides truly isolated, consistent environments for build and test so that when something fails, you know exactly how to debug.

Orka on AWS Architecture

Plays well with others
Connect your Orka environment to your build pipeline with one of our free, open-source plugins.
Orka on AWS FAQs
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- Will I be billed by MacStadium or through my AWS account?
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