[dastx]

This is nonsensical. Apple is a hardware company before they are software. In addition, they would have to provide support for the software running on hardware that they don't know, understand or whatever else.

It would have been more likely for AWS to give specs to Apple, who could have then created a custom job for some extra monies.

In reality though, using Mac Minis is perfectly reasonable. It's likely the cheapest option for both Apple and Amazon.