Hello!
We have a mac1.metal instance working for deployment and it was created a few years ago with Catalina AMI (amzn-ec2-macos-10.15.7-20201204-234310). We use this instance to build iOS/Android Apps successfully until Apple changed the minimum SDK for a build to iOS 15 that requires Xcode 13 so we need to upgrade the OS to the last version.
I made a snapshot of the current instance and then I tried to upgrade it but when the machine restarted I got stuck there because I think it requires physical access to confirm the OS installation so I rollbacked the instance with the snapshot I previously created.
It is possible to upgrade the instance without losing any data/configuration? I searched on the AWS documentation but I didn't see how to upgrade the OS.
Thank you!
Hello SeanM! Thanks for the reply. Yes, I see that on the documentation and I tried to update following the steps to list the available updates but I only have update for Xcode 12 and macOS Catalina.
So when I tried to update the os to BigSur I did it using Screen sharing and the Store but when I did this I got stuck and the machine didn't start so I rollback to the snapshot. Searching a little bit more I found on one site they said "Do not upgrade a computer unless you have physical access to it. Attempting to upgrade a computer remotely will drop the remote connection leaving the computer stuck waiting for local user input."