Overview
Rocky Linux is a free, open-source enterprise operating system developed by the community, for the community. It aims to closely follow the behavior and compatibility of the leading upstream enterprise Linux distribution, offering a reliable, predictable platform for production environments. Development is fully open and transparent, creating space for anyone to contribute--whether your skills lie in documentation, translation, testing, release engineering, infrastructure, web development, or security.
Join the conversation on Mattermost at https://chat.rockylinux.org , visit our forums at https://forums.rockylinux.org , and start contributing today.
Found an issue? Report it at https://bugs.rockylinux.org .
Highlights
- Configured with cloud-init for your convenience. Login as "rocky"
- The next free, open, community enterprise operating system built by the community, for the community
- With development completely open source and welcoming to all, come join us build, test, and further the Rocky Linux development at https://rockylinux.org
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Pricing
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
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t4g.medium Recommended | $0.00 |
r7gd.4xlarge | $0.00 |
hpc7g.16xlarge | $0.00 |
m6g.8xlarge | $0.00 |
m8gd.24xlarge | $0.00 |
x8g.12xlarge | $0.00 |
m6gd.xlarge | $0.00 |
r8g.metal-48xl | $0.00 |
r7g.4xlarge | $0.00 |
is4gen.xlarge | $0.00 |
Vendor refund policy
free
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Delivery details
64-bit (Arm) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
The account 'rocky' has been preconfigured and made available with sudo permissions. SSH as this user to your instance, authenticating with the key you provided upon instance creation.
Support
Vendor support
AWS infrastructure support
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