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Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Overview
Run your containerized workloads on a foundation that is secure by default, eliminating the endless cycle of CVE patching and remediation that drains your team's time and resources.
Why Chainguard Container Hosts?
- Secure base from day one: Minimal VM images built entirely from source in our SLSA Level 2 environment include only essential components, eliminating bloat and vulnerabilities
- Stop chasing CVEs: No more valuable engineering time spent on emergency patching, security advisories, or remediation tickets, allowing your teams to focus on building features, not fixing CVEs.
Available Configurations
- Container platforms: Kubernetes (1.32, 1.33, 1.34), Amazon ECS, Docker
- Architectures: x86_64 and arm64
- FIPS variants: Includes FIPS requirements, hardening to STIG guidelines, and CIS Benchmark Level 1
Chainguard offers custom pricing through AWS Marketplace Private Offers. Contact aws-marketplace@chainguard.dev for more information on our enterprise pricing.
Highlights
- Low-to-zero known CVEs with frequent patches and rebuilds
- Complete supply chain transparency with full SLSA Build Level 2 provenance, signatures, and SBOMs
- Compliant variants with FIPS requirements, hardening to STIG guidelines, and CIS Benchmark Level 1
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m7i.large Recommended | $0.18 |
t3.micro | $0.08 |
i7i.large | $0.18 |
m7i.4xlarge | $0.90 |
r8a.8xlarge | $1.13 |
m6in.16xlarge | $1.50 |
r8a.medium | $0.12 |
c6id.16xlarge | $1.50 |
m5ad.24xlarge | $1.65 |
x2iezn.12xlarge | $1.35 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the Chainguard Container Host, a minimal virtual machine image built to run containers on ECS. Pricing is tied to the AWS EC2 instance type you run it on. Each dimension listed is a separate instance size, billed per hour of use. Larger instance families and sizes carry higher hourly rates, so your cost scales with the compute, memory, storage, or GPU capacity you choose. There is no upfront commitment; you are charged only for the hours each instance runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The Container Host is a minimal virtual machine image built to run containers. It includes only essential components like a Linux kernel, systemd, and glibc. It works standalone with standard container runtimes and orchestration systems. You do not need Chainguard Containers, though combining them gives consistent security baselines across your stack.
The software charge meters running instance-hours only. Fully stopped or powered-off instances do not accrue software charges. Note that underlying AWS resources, such as attached storage, may still incur separate AWS fees while an instance is stopped. You pay the hourly software rate only for the hours each instance runs.
Each rate maps to one AWS EC2 instance type, such as general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, or GPU families. Your rate depends on the instance size you launch the image on. Larger sizes with more compute, memory, storage, or GPU capacity carry higher hourly rates. You pick the instance that fits your workload.
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64-bit (x86) 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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Chainguard ECS x86_64 20260817-0317
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This AMI is intended for Amazon ECS container instances. Deploy it by launching an Amazon EC2 instance and have it join an Amazon ECS cluster by following the documentation for configuring Amazon ECS Agent . If you specified the name of a key pair at launch, you can use SSH to connect to the instance as "ec2-user".
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Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
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