This product has charges associated with it for support. Rocky Linux is an open-source enterprise operating system designed to be 100% bug-for-bug compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux®.
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for support and maintenance by AskforCloud LLC.
Rocky Linux is a community-driven enterprise Linux operating system built to provide compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It delivers a stable, secure, and reliable foundation for cloud environments, enterprise applications, development platforms, and production workloads. With a long-term maintenance lifecycle, Rocky Linux helps organizations deploy enterprise-grade infrastructure without subscription licensing requirements.
Key Advantages
Enterprise RHEL Compatibility: Provides binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, allowing existing applications, configurations, and workloads to run with minimal changes.
Production-Ready Performance: Designed for demanding workloads, including enterprise servers, cloud platforms, virtualization environments, and large-scale deployments.
Extended Lifecycle Support: Offers long-term updates, security enhancements, and maintenance releases to support stable infrastructure operations.
Open Source & Community Powered: Developed through an open-source community model focused on transparency, security, reliability, and continuous improvement.
Rocky Linux delivers enterprise-level capabilities with the freedom and flexibility of open-source technology, making it a reliable choice for modern cloud, hybrid, and on-premises infrastructure deployments.
Disclaimer- This Virtual Machine Offer contains free and open-source software. All software names, logos, and trademarks referenced in this Virtual Machine Offer remain the exclusive property of their respective owners. Askforcloud LLC does not provide or include any commercial license, subscription, or proprietary support entitlement for the products mentioned above.
Rocky Linux® is a registered trademark of Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation in the United States and other countries.
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You pay by the hour for Rocky Linux 9.1 running on your chosen Amazon EC2 instance type. The software price is bundled with vendor support and billed per running hour. Each dimension maps to one EC2 instance type, so pricing scales with the compute size you select. Smaller instances like t2.nano and t3.micro cost less per hour than large memory, compute, or GPU instances such as u-24tb1.metal, p4d.24xlarge, or x2iedn.metal. You choose the instance that fits your workload, and you are charged only for the hours it runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does one hour of billing cover for a given instance type?
One hour equals one running hour of a single EC2 instance of the type you select. The charge combines the Rocky Linux 9.1 software and vendor support. You pay for each instance you launch, counted separately, for every wall-clock hour it runs.
Am I charged the hourly software fee when my instance is stopped?
The software fee meters running hours only. A stopped instance does not accrue the hourly software charge. Note that AWS may still bill for attached storage while the instance is stopped, but that is separate from this software charge.
If I switch to a different instance type, how does my rate change?
Each instance type is its own dimension with its own hourly rate. Moving your workload to another type applies that type's rate for the hours it runs. Changing size is manual — you launch or resize the instance, and billing follows the new type immediately.
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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.
Version release notes
Rocky Linux 9.1 AMI Now Available
A new AWS AMI based on Rocky Linux 9.1 is now available for deployment. This image provides a stable, enterprise-grade operating system optimized for cloud environments, enabling you to quickly launch secure and reliable Linux instances.
Key Benefits:
Based on Rocky Linux 9.1
Enterprise-grade stability and performance
Optimized for AWS deployments
Faster provisioning with a preconfigured operating system
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Binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) enabling existing applications, configurations, and workloads to run with minimal changes
Open Source Architecture
Community-driven enterprise Linux operating system built on open-source technology model focused on transparency, security, reliability, and continuous improvement
Production Workload Support
Designed for demanding workloads including enterprise servers, cloud platforms, virtualization environments, and large-scale deployments
Pre-installed Security Tools
Over 2500 pre-installed security tools including Nmap, Metasploit Framework, Wireshark, Burp Suite, Aircrack-ng, John the Ripper, Hydra, Nikto, Sqlmap, and THC-Hydra ready for immediate use.
Desktop Environment and Remote Access
XFCE4 graphical desktop environment accessible via VNC on port 5901 immediately after instance launch without manual server configuration.
Filesystem Compliance
FHS (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard) compliant filesystem enabling standard Linux directory structure for binaries, support files, and libraries.
Security Tool Categories
Comprehensive toolset covering Information Gathering, Vulnerability Analysis, Web Application Analysis, Database Assessments, Password Attacks, Wireless Attacks, Exploitation, Sniffing and Spoofing, Post Exploitation, Forensics, Reverse Engineering, and Reporting capabilities.
Preinstalled Security Tools
Over 600 preinstalled tools for penetration testing, forensics, scanning, reconnaissance, exploitation, privilege escalation, and exfiltration tasks.
Wireless and Bluetooth Auditing
Wireless and Bluetooth assessment tools including Aircrack-ng, Kismet, and Ubertooth for auditing 802.11 networks and Bluetooth devices.
Exploitation and Privilege Escalation
Exploitation tools such as Metasploit Framework, sqlmap, and John the Ripper for testing vulnerabilities and escalating privileges within systems.
Web Application Security Testing
Web application analysis tools including Burp Suite, Nikto, and OWASP ZAP for comprehensive web application security assessment.
Forensics and Data Recovery
Digital forensics tools such as Autopsy, DC3DD, and Guymager for forensic analysis and data recovery operations.
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