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Wind River eLxr™ 12 (Aria) is a community maintained Enterprise Linux distribution built on the open-source eLxr project, which is based on Debian 12 and Linux Kernel 6.1. It delivers deployment and operations for AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environments with enterprise-grade kernel stability, open-source security maintenance and CVE remediation, ecosystem certification, lifecycle management, and compatibility with AI and cloud-native workloads.
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Overview
eLxr™ 12
eLxr™ 12 (Aria) is an open-source community maintained Enterprise Linux distribution for organizations running mission-critical and high-performance workloads across distributed environments in the industrial, retail, telecommunications, medical, and financial services sectors.
Built on Debian 12 and Linux Kernel 6.1 LTS, eLxr™ extends the Debian ecosystem with open-source community lifecycle management, kernel stability, curated package maintenance, vulnerability remediation, certified ecosystem integrations, and operational tooling for production deployment.
Learn more about eLxr on our community web page: eLxr.org
eLxr is for deployment on modern AWS EC2 instance families and enterprise cloud environments.
Performance and Infrastructure Features
- AWS EC2 deployment enablement
- SR-IOV networking
- PCI passthrough capabilities
- DPDK userspace networking
- NUMA-aware workload deployment
- Huge Pages
- CPU isolation capabilities
- IRQ affinity and workload tuning
- Throughput and packet-processing optimization
- Software RAID
- Hardware-assisted virtualization
- Open vSwitch, Linux Bridge, NAT, and VETH networking
- Enterprise performance tuning guidance
- Signed and authenticated package repositories
Lifecycle Services
- Open-source upstream community package maintenance
- eLxr community repositories
- Regular security updates
- Authenticated and GPG-signed repositories
- Enterprise package lifecycle management
- Secure software delivery practices
Security Tooling
- Trivy package inclusion and maintenance for SBOM generation
- AppArmor framework and security profiles
Identity integration software packages included for:
- Active Directory integration
- OpenLDAP integration
- Kerberos authentication
- SAML federation
- OAuth
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Open-source cryptographic libraries
Cloud-Native and Modern Workload & Platform Enablement
- Kubernetes ecosystem and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Container platform and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Virtualization platform enablement and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Infrastructure automation tooling
- Performance-focused Linux kernel foundation
Virtualization Technologies
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- KVM
- QEMU
- Libvirt
- Xen
- LXC
Kubernetes and Container Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- Kubernetes
- K3s
- Containerd
- Docker
- Podman
- Runc
Developer Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- OpenJDK
- Python
- Node.js
- Go
- Rust
- Ruby
- GCC
- PHP
Observability Platforms
Storage Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- Ceph
- GlusterFS
- NFS
- ext4
Databases
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- PostgreSQL
- MariaDB
Web Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:
- NGINX
- HAProxy
- Apache HTTP Server
- Lighttpd
Certified Ecosystem
The following solutions are validated and certified for deployment on eLxr.
Security and Operations
- CrowdStrike
- Tenable
- Tanium
- Rapid7
- BeyondTrust
- Trivy
Infrastructure Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
Data Protection
- Veeam
AI and Machine Learning
Validated deployment of:
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- ONNX
- Intel OpenVINO
Certification indicates validation and interoperability testing by the eLxr community. Certification does not imply the vendor reviewed or that vendor IP is distributed, maintained, or supported.
For more insights into our eLxr features and packages, please navigate to the eLxr community webpage or subscribe to our community forums.
Highlights
- Enterprise Linux distribution built on Debian 12 (Bookworm), with curated package maintenance, security updates, and CVE remediation.
- Cloud-ready operating environment optimized for AWS EC2 deployments, including Kubernetes, containers, virtualization, observability, AI & ML, developer software, tooling, and ecosystem enablement.
- Certified ecosystem of infrastructure, automation, security, observability, backup, and AI workloads. Optional commercial support subscriptions available from Wind River.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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OtherLinux 12
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Dimensions summary
This listing carries no software charge — it is offered free. You pay only for the AWS EC2 instance you choose to run it on, billed per hour. The many dimensions listed are not feature tiers or plans. Each one maps to a specific EC2 instance type and size, from small general-purpose instances to large compute-, memory-, storage-, and GPU-optimized options. Your hourly cost scales with the capacity of the instance you select. Pick the instance that matches your workload; larger or specialized instances cost more per hour to operate.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You run eLxr Server 12, a Debian-based enterprise Linux, on the EC2 instance type you select. The software itself carries no charge. One unit is one running EC2 instance, billed per hour based on that instance's size and family.
The software carries no charge in any state, since this listing is free. When an instance is stopped, no hourly software fee applies. You may still pay underlying AWS fees, such as storage for attached volumes. Running time drives the EC2 instance cost.
Each option maps to a specific EC2 instance type and size. They are not feature tiers. General-purpose, compute-, memory-, storage-, and GPU-optimized families are all available. Match the instance to your workload capacity needs. The hourly rate reflects the instance chosen, not the software.
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Delivery details
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.
Additional details
Usage instructions
To help simplify your experience, Wind River provides a command to run on devices with eLxr 12 to activate them for eLxr Pro. Please run below commands to install elxr-pro and active your machine
1. sudo apt update && sudo apt install elxr-pro 2. sudo elxr-pro join securityToken 3. sudo apt updateFor a successful activation, the device must be connected to the Internet.
For details: https://docs.windriver.com/r/bundle/eLxr_Pro_12_Release_Supplement/page/yjl1749672698989.html
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Support
Vendor support
eLxr 12 - Aria is an open source, enterprise-grade Linux distribution designed for edge-to-cloud use cases. It is community maintained through the eLxr Project at forums.elxr.org . It does not include commercial vendor support from Wind River.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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Customer reviews
nerdindenial
Lean and Mean
Reviewed on Dec 14, 2024
Review from a verified AWS customer
I had no problems creating and launching a VM and it boots very quickly. It's a good slimmed-down Debian 12 image with an upstream-first development methodology.