Overview
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power servers, desktops, and embedded systems. Derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley, FreeBSD has been continually developed by a large community for more than 30 years.
FreeBSD's networking, security, storage, and monitoring features, including the pf firewall, the Capsicum and CloudABI capability frameworks, the ZFS filesystem, and the DTrace dynamic tracing framework, make FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage systems.
Highlights
- FreeBSD provides access to over 26,000 third-party applications via the ports tree and binary packages.
- FreeBSD's widely-recognized stability and reliability and five-year support for stable branches makes it ideal for building long-lived services.
- Between Capsicum, Jails, CloudABI, and support for multiple firewalls, FreeBSD provides an unsurpassed security feature set.
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Typical total price
$0.01/hour
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.00 | $0.012 | $0.012 |
t2.small | $0.00 | $0.023 | $0.023 |
t2.medium | $0.00 | $0.046 | $0.046 |
t2.large | $0.00 | $0.093 | $0.093 |
t2.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.186 | $0.186 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.371 | $0.371 |
t3.nano | $0.00 | $0.005 | $0.005 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended | $0.00 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
t3.small | $0.00 | $0.021 | $0.021 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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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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This AMI launches with sshd running and the SSH public key you provide at launch time allowed to log in as ec2-user with passwordless "su" to root. To use this AMI, ensure that your EC2 security group allows SSH (tcp/22) from your location, and then "ssh ec2-user@
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Support for FreeBSD is available via the mailing lists and FreeBSD Forums.
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Customer reviews
BEST WEB OS EVAR
This is simply the best operating system in the universe. Very well documented and reliable, it can truly make the web great again.
FreeBSD 11 - another great release
I am using FreeBSD since it came on AWS and never had any issues with any of the ports and updates.
With FreeBSD 11 Colin Percival continues his excellent job of porting FreeBSD on AWS. I am not sure if it is possible to do future release upgrades (e.g 10->11 was not possible), but I am sure that this will be fixed in any of the upcoming releases knowing the team behind FreeBSD.
Awesome.
Same BSD I expect on hardware, but in EC2. Everything works as expected...including buildworlds, etc. As always, since we don't have access to the console in EC2, be careful with fstab and things that might interrupt the boot process.