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I found that to start with apple app development you need to have some sort of Mac.
I wonder if one may load an image of an Mac OSx on an Amazon EC2 instance for this purpose.
Not going to work. EC2 uses Xen for its virtualization technology, and the chance of a Mac Xen port is pretty much nil, due to Apple’s famously tight control over their operating system. Your best bet is probably to pony up for a Mac Mini; they’re relatively cheap and could make a good starter dev box.
You want a local one anyway. You’ll be running IDEs and a bunch of interactive utilities; latency from using a remote desktop will make everything just that much more difficult.