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Orka Platform orchestrates macOS in the cloud using Kubernetes technology on genuine Apple hardware. Built by developers for developers, Orka Platform is specifically designed for Mac and integrates with industry-leading tools to provide powerful scalability.
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Overview
Get more out of your AWS spend and EC2 Macs with Orka. MacStadium Orka platform increases your development teams speed and efficiency by creating seamless iOS and macOS app development workflows on AWS EC2 Macs.
Orka platform on AWS is
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Cost-effective - Orka orchestrates up to 2 VMs per EC2 Mac, which means your development team can execute twice as many tasks with the same hardware pool.
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Seamless CI/CD - Connect your Orka on AWS environment with the most popular DevOps tools (e.g. Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and more) to efficiently orchestrate your iOS and macOS.
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Scalable - Orka leverages the power of EKS and EC2 Macs to support a few to a few hundred machines in a single environment.
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Easy to use - The MacStadium team of experts stands by to help you setup and maintain your Orka environment.
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Enterprise-grade - The Orka platform was designed specifically for Mac at scale and provides enterprise-level orchestration for the demands of highly productive development teams.
For custom pricing, EULA, or a private contract, please contact AWS Orka Orders awsorkaorders@macstadium.com for a private offer.
Highlights
- Increase the value of your current AWS spend - Create up to 2 VMs per EC2 Mac.
- Cut build times in half - Spin up VMs in seconds (not minutes).
- Scale on demand - Add EC2 Macs to your environment seamlessly.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
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Orka Platform on AWS | Contact MacStadium for private offer details. | $0.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
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Metering as defined per contract. | $0.01 |
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This listing uses a contract-based model with two dimensions. The first, "Metering as defined per contract," bills according to usage terms set in your specific contract. The second, "Orka Platform on AWS," is arranged through a private offer, so you contact MacStadium to define the details. Neither dimension has fixed public pricing. Instead, both depend on terms agreed with the vendor and billed through your AWS account. This structure fits teams that need custom scaling of macOS build environments rather than a fixed, standard plan.
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Orka orchestrates macOS virtual machines on AWS EC2 Mac instances using Kubernetes. You turn EC2 Macs into ephemeral, on-demand build environments. Billing follows the metering defined in your contract, so the unit reflects the resources or capacity terms you agree with MacStadium rather than a fixed public per-node rate.
Orka autoscales Mac resources up and down as your team needs them. Burst provides dedicated, on-demand access to elastic cluster capacity, so you pay only for the time you use those additional dedicated nodes. Exact charges follow the metering terms set in your contract.
The "Metering as defined per contract" dimension bills according to usage terms written into your agreement. The "Orka Platform on AWS" dimension is arranged through a private offer, where you contact MacStadium to define the specifics. Both bill through your AWS account rather than carrying fixed public pricing.
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Customer reviews
Manufacturing
Powerful Hosted Mac CI/CD Platform with Excellent Performance and Support
Reviewed on May 26, 2026
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
strong on enterprise Mac infrastructure, CI/CD workflows, and support for Apple-only workloads, with tradeoffs around price and the need to fit into the Apple ecosystem. The clearest theme is: it’s valuable when you specifically need hosted Macs, but less compelling if you want a cheap, general-purpose cloud. Has a functional, specialized platform that helps teams manage Mac workloads. Doesn't have native AI features. Very strong in performance and support.
What do you dislike about the product?
It's very expensive you you need it for cloud features. You would really want to use it more like a server
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
we are needing secure Mac desktops for remote staff.
Rajdeep M.
Great Customer Service
Reviewed on Jul 10, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
MacStadium's best thing is their wide range of offerings, at great pricing, and great customer service.
What do you dislike about the product?
While I've liked their customer service, I've found considerable bugs where my instances randomly get stopped. Although, most of these can be traced to older macOS version, as I haven't noticed that after upgrading.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MacStadium is one of the only reliable provider of macOS Servers. It solves the need of my team for high-performance macOS Build Infrastructure.
Computer Software
Best macOS machines for CI/CD integrations
Reviewed on May 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
What's best, in my opinion, about MacStadium is the easiness of use and a wide choice of different mac machines from mac minis to mac studios while also being able to customize the storage and the CPU.
It also offers a very good and useful set of documentation.
It also offers a very good and useful set of documentation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The first thing that comes to mind is the elevated price compare to other cloud machines provider and the lack of a true scalable solution. There is no way to automatically change/upgrade the machine.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
MacStadium is helping us hosting our CI/CD integration system. This means that we can easily automate our testing suite and our deploying logic for software that requires macOS.
Harsh V.
Ready infrastructure to host and test on Mac devices
Reviewed on May 17, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It is cost effective easy to setup and provides bare metal Mac devices for Mac Os development and testing.
What do you dislike about the product?
They bill monthly or annually and not hourly which is a problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has allowed host and develop for Mac devices and also allowed testing for Mac devices for MacOs specific softwares.
Computer Software
Self host your CI/CD machine
Reviewed on Oct 27, 2022
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
We used MacStadium to host bare metal machines for our CI/CD needs. Rare downtime, relatively okayish to set up a machine, and less cost are what we liked the best.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes the downtime and customer support is difficult to deal with.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Host the machine for CI/CD for our range of mobile apps.