It might not be a 19" rackmount chassis like the Xserves of yore, but it's hard to deny Apple hardware will continue to find its way into real datacenters.
The high end Mac mini SKU mentioned in TFA sounds great for this application, especially now that they have 10Gig Ethernet.
The point is driving down the power consumption in datacenters. I doubt the Apple hardware at AWS is cause of high power consumption, and I also doubt Apple hardware will replace Linux and Windows machines that compose the vast majority of AWS computing power.
ARM might replace Intel, but it won't be branded Apple, that's for sure.
It might not be a 19" rackmount chassis like the Xserves of yore, but it's hard to deny Apple hardware will continue to find its way into real datacenters.
The high end Mac mini SKU mentioned in TFA sounds great for this application, especially now that they have 10Gig Ethernet.