Overview
This AMI is a lightweight, minimal Linux distribution based on MinimOS, designed for secure, efficient, and streamlined cloud deployments. Ideal for teams seeking reduced complexity, faster boot times, and a minimal runtime footprint. Suitable for use in production environments, CI/CD pipelines, and container host setups.
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- 90% fewer vulnerabilities than standard images
- identical binaries to upstream project, with new image versions created automatically each time upstream has a new version
- Minimus offers a wide variety of container and VM images for hundreds of popular apps and tools
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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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