Canonical yesterday announced the offer Ubuntu Pro image for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the Amazon. This new image can be acquired by AWS Marketplace, covering Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS version, companies can simply select and run the image used on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) . Since Ubuntu Pro is a cloud-oriented products, so it will provide additional functionality for enterprise deployment of cloud fields on the basis of Ubuntu.
Ubuntu Pro main features are as follows:
- To provide years of maintenance updates and security packages
- Kernel Livepatch , without having to reboot to apply the kernel security updates to ensure continuous security patches installed, and have a longer uptime and higher availability
- FIPS use custom and universal EAL compatible components for the environment under the FedRAMP, PCI, HIPAA and ISO compliance system
- Ubuntu infrastructure and application warehouse patches covering hundreds of open source projects, including Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Node.js, RabbitMQ and Redis and so on.
- Integration of AWS security and compliance features, including AWS Security Hub and AWS CloudTrail etc. (first quarter of 2020 can be used)
In addition, Ubuntu on AWS Pro charge of approximately $ 0.229 / hour, but because instance type.
Finally, note that the ten years of maintenance time is not applicable to any version. Only Ubuntu 18.04 LTS maintenance for 10 years, 14.04 LTS and 16.04 LTS is 8 years. In addition, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS certification in progress, will be available in the first quarter of 2020. Certified components and real-time kernel patch is not available for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS.