The official Ubuntu with a smaller footprint, enhanced security coverage, and automated hardening and compliance measures. Get up to 15 years of security maintenance, including coverage for thousands of packages beyond the core operating system.
Ubuntu Pro is a comprehensive subscription for security, support, and compliance, optimized for AWS with 10 years of security maintenance, and providing an option to extend for 5 additional years through the Legacy add-on.
Minimal Ubuntu Pro is optimized for automated use at scale, with a tiny package set, minimal security footprint, and extensive security coverage: With Ubuntu Pro, you can enjoy enhanced security coverage that protects the OS and expands security maintenance to thousands of packages. This includes critical applications such as Apache Kafka, NGINX, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and more.
The unique features of Ubuntu Pro in a minimal image empower teams to gain control, improve their security posture, and freely consume open-source software while simultaneously meeting internal security, governance, and compliance requirements.
Features of Ubuntu Pro:
Kernel Livepatch: Enables in-memory application of kernel security patches without rebooting, minimizing downtime.
Expanded Security Maintenance: Provides up to 15 years of security updates (with Legacy add-on), ensuring long-term security maintenance for enterprise applications.
Coverage for the widest software ecosystem: Expands security maintenance to thousands of packages, including critical applications such as Apache Kafka, NGINX, MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, and runtimes such as PHP and Python, allowing teams to consume a vast collection of open source software while meeting their internal security, governance, and compliance requirements.
Canonical Landscape license included: Landscape, Canonical's official fleet management tool, automates security management tasks across your Ubuntu estate, available on request, streamlining control and security.
Minimal Ubuntu Pro remains fully compatible with Ubuntu Server 24.04 LTS, with a reduced base package set, adding additional security, compliance and management tools in a form suitable for small to large-scale Linux operations.
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
You pay by the hour for each Arm-based (Graviton) EC2 instance running this Minimal Ubuntu Pro image. Each dimension maps to a specific instance type, such as t4g.nano, m8g.large, or c8g.metal-48xl. There are no tiers or add-ons to choose between. Instead, the price scales with the instance you select, since Ubuntu Pro billing is based on the instance's vCPUs and metered by usage. Smaller instances carry lower hourly rates; larger and bare-metal instances carry higher rates. Pick the instance type that fits your workload, and you are billed only for the hours it runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does the hourly rate for each instance type actually cover?
The rate combines the Ubuntu Pro software license with your running EC2 instance. Ubuntu Pro adds security patches for Ubuntu components, coverage for hundreds of open source applications, FIPS 140-3 and Common Criteria EAL2 certified components, optional CIS and DISA STIG hardening, and Kernel Livepatch.
Why do larger instance types cost more per hour?
Ubuntu Pro pricing scales with instance size. It is based on the instance's vCPU count and metered by the second. So an instance with more vCPUs carries a higher hourly software rate than one with fewer vCPUs, whether it is a virtual or bare-metal type.
Am I charged when an instance is stopped?
Billing meters running time only, since usage is metered by the second. A stopped instance is not actively running, so the Ubuntu Pro software charge does not accrue. Note that underlying AWS storage for a stopped instance may still incur separate AWS fees.
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Ubuntu Pro comes with security maintenance by default for its Main and Universe repositories for 10 years from its release date with additional 5 years with the Legacy add-on. Additional ticket/phone support can be added with two support levels: 24-hour support for business days or 24x7 support coverage. Learn more at
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Ubuntu Pro provides enhanced security coverage and automated hardening and compliance features. This subscription delivers up to 15 years of security maintenance for thousands of packages beyond the core operating system.
The official Ubuntu with a smaller footprint, enhanced security coverage, and automated hardening and compliance measures. Get up to 15 years of security maintenance, including coverage for thousands of packages beyond the core operating system.
Ubuntu Pro provides enhanced security coverage and automated hardening and compliance features. This subscription delivers up to 15 years of security maintenance for thousands of packages beyond the core operating system.
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