[amarshall]

Sort of as there is a minimum of 24-hours.

> Billing for EC2 Mac instances is per second with a 24-hour minimum allocation period to comply with the Apple macOS Software License Agreement.

[swebs]

Do those 24 hours need to be continuous?

[schiederme]

Yes. It’s in the MacOS ToS.

[lostmsu]

But... why?

[hulitu]

So you get the full Apple MacOSX experience.