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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for an unattended Moodle installation with a tuned PHP/Apache/MariaDB stack, per-instance TLS certificate, pre-configured Amazon CloudWatch log/metric shipping and AWS Systems Manager access, SSH hardening, and vendor support from CloudSOE.
Overview
Deploy a production ready Moodle learning management system on AWS in minutes, on a stack tuned for how Moodle actually behaves under load. Built for schools, universities, corporate training teams and registered training organisations that want the world's most widely used open source LMS on infrastructure they control, without the assembly work that separates a demo install from something that survives assignment deadline night. This image ships current Moodle LTS on a hardened base OS. The details that separate a working Moodle from a struggling one
What you get out of the box
- Current Moodle LTS release
- CIS aligned OS hardening, UFW allowing 443 and SSH only
- CLI management ready: Moodle's admin CLI tools documented for scripted upgrades, maintenance mode and user operations
Common use cases
- Schools and universities: courses, assignments, quizzes, gradebook and parent or student portals on infrastructure the institution controls
- Corporate learning and development: onboarding, compliance training and certification tracking without per learner platform fees
- Registered training organisations
Usage notes
- Attach an IAM instance role with the AWS-managed policies CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy and AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore to activate CloudWatch and Session Manager. No AWS credentials are stored on the image.
- Credentials: /opt/moodle/default-moodle-credentials.txt. Moodle code: /var/www/moodle (config.php there; update $CFG->wwwroot after moving to a domain). Site data: /var/moodledata. Apache vhost: /etc/apache2/sites-available/moodle.conf. TLS: /etc/ssl/certs/moodle-selfsigned.crt and /etc/ssl/private/moodle-selfsigned.key.
- Ports: 22 (SSH/SFTP), 80 (HTTP, redirects to HTTPS), 443 (HTTPS).
- CloudWatch config: /opt/aws/amazon-cloudwatch-agent/etc/amazon-cloudwatch-agent.d/moodle.json.
Sizing guidance
Moodle is heavier than it looks and concurrency is spiky around deadlines. Evaluation and small cohorts: t3.medium. A typical school or department: m7i.large with gp3 storage. Large institutions or exam concurrency: m7i.xlarge with RDS and ElastiCache offload documented in the architecture guide.
Trademark notice
Moodle™ is a registered trademark of Moodle Pty Ltd. This product is independently packaged and maintained and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or certified by Moodle Pty Ltd.
Highlights
- Latest Moodle
- Patched base OS
- Observability and operations built in: Amazon CloudWatch agent ships the Moodle Apache access/error logs, MariaDB error log, syslog and auth.log and publishes host metrics under CloudSOE/moodle; Amazon SSM Agent enables Session Manager; backed by CloudSOE support.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.large Recommended | $0.03 |
t3.micro | $0.03 |
t2.micro | $0.03 |
r5a.4xlarge | $0.03 |
r5n.12xlarge | $0.03 |
r5dn.metal | $0.03 |
r5b.2xlarge | $0.03 |
m7i.2xlarge | $0.03 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.03 |
r5dn.24xlarge | $0.03 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the AWS EC2 instance that runs this Moodle image. Pricing is not tiered by features. Every instance type includes the same pre-installed software; you choose based on compute, memory, and storage needs. The options fall into families: burstable t2 and t3/t3a instances for lighter or variable workloads, general-purpose m7i, m7i-flex, and m7a instances, and memory-optimized r5 variants. Within each family, hourly cost scales with size, from nano and medium up through large multi-core and bare-metal instances. You are billed through your existing AWS account.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You get one running EC2 instance with the Moodle image pre-installed. It ships Moodle 5.x on Debian with Apache, PHP 8.4, MariaDB and phpMyAdmin. First boot installs Moodle, generates per-instance database credentials and a TLS certificate, and writes your admin login to a protected file.
Hourly software charges accrue only while the instance runs. A stopped instance stops accruing hourly software charges. You may still pay underlying AWS storage fees for the disk and any data kept while stopped. Charges resume when you start the instance again.
You pay one hourly rate for the software image plus the standard AWS charges for the chosen instance and its storage. Both meter running time and appear together through your existing AWS account. Larger instance types raise the hourly figure; the software is not billed per feature or user.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Usage instructions
Quick Start:
- Browse to https://<instance-ip>/ (self-signed certificate; replaceable).
- Credentials were generated on first boot: SSH in as 'debian' and read /opt/moodle/default-moodle-credentials.txt.
- Change the admin password after first login.
- Monitoring: attach an IAM instance role with the AWS-managed policies CloudWatchAgentServerPolicy and AmazonSSMManagedInstanceCore to enable CloudWatch logs/metrics (namespace CloudSOE/moodle) and Session Manager. No AWS credentials are stored on the image.
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Vendor support for this AMI is provided by CloudSOE. To reach the support team, email support@cloudsoe.com with a description of your issue.
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