Canonical Announces Ubuntu Pro, Premium Images for Amazon Web Services

Ubuntu Pro, as Canonical likes to call these new premium images for AWS, covers the Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS releases and allows enterprises to purchase longer updates and security maintenance, critical compliance features, as well as broader security coverage with no contract required. The Ubuntu Pro images are supported on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). Highlights of Ubuntu Pro include 10 years of package updates and security maintenance for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 8 years for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, Kernel Livepatch support for rebootless kernel patching and higher uptime, as well as customised FIPS and Common Criteria EAL-compliant components that allows its use under environments with compliance regimes like ISO, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and PCI.