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This product has charges associated with it for hardening the AMI. A production-ready AMI with K3s, a lightweight, CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution. Preconfigured for rapid deployment of containerized workloads on AWS, this AMI provides a secure and efficient Kubernetes environment with minimal resource requirements. Ideal for development, testing, CI/CD, edge computing, and small to medium production workloads.
Overview
Deploy a fully functional Kubernetes environment on Amazon EC2 in minutes with this preconfigured AMI featuring K3s, a lightweight, CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution.
This AMI eliminates the complexity of manually installing and configuring Kubernetes, enabling developers, system administrators, and DevOps teams to focus on deploying and managing applications rather than setting up the underlying Kubernetes environment.
Features Preinstalled and configured K3s Optimized for deployment on Amazon EC2 Fast startup and low resource consumption Compatible with standard Kubernetes APIs, manifests, and tooling Systemd-managed K3s service Secure baseline configuration Ready for single-node deployments Can be expanded into multi-node K3s clusters Available on supported x86_64 and ARM64 platforms Suitable for development, testing, CI/CD, edge computing, and production workloads
Use Cases Kubernetes learning and experimentation Microservices and containerized application deployment Development and staging environments CI/CD workloads Edge and IoT applications Lightweight production Kubernetes clusters Self-hosted SaaS applications
Benefits Deploy Kubernetes on Amazon EC2 in minutes Reduce resource requirements compared with traditional Kubernetes deployments Eliminate manual K3s installation and initial configuration Simplify deployment and ongoing administration Reduce operational overhead Use standard Kubernetes tools, APIs, and manifests Available Linux Distributions
Kurian provides multiple versions of this product on popular Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, Debian, Oracle Linux, Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux, Amazon Linux, Fedora Linux, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For currently supported K3s versions, Linux distributions, and operating system versions, refer to the AMI Version information under the Usage Information section of this AWS Marketplace listing.
If a required combination of K3s version, Linux distribution, or operating system version is not currently listed in AWS Marketplace, Kurian can build custom AMIs. Please contact Kurian for availability.
About Kurian AMIs
Kurian provides preconfigured AMIs for widely used software platforms and DevOps technologies, including CMS platforms, Jenkins, databases, LAMP stacks, Ansible, monitoring applications, and other tools commonly used by system administrators, developers, and DevOps engineers.
For selected Linux distributions, Kurian also provides hardened AMIs based on recognized industry security benchmarks.
Kurian AMIs are built using the software vendors' standard installation and configuration procedures wherever possible. This allows administrators to use standard product documentation and familiar configuration methods when customizing or extending their deployments.
Highlights
- Ready-to-use K3s Kubernetes. Launch a preconfigured K3s Kubernetes environment on Amazon EC2 in minutes without manually installing and configuring Kubernetes components.
- Lightweight and resource efficient. Run a CNCF-certified Kubernetes distribution designed for low resource consumption while maintaining compatibility with standard Kubernetes APIs, manifests, and tooling.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m4.large Recommended | $0.08 |
c3.2xlarge | $0.13 |
d2.4xlarge | $0.15 |
i3.large | $0.08 |
t2.small | $0.05 |
i3.8xlarge | $0.15 |
m5d.24xlarge | $0.15 |
x1.32xlarge | $0.15 |
m5d.12xlarge | $0.15 |
i2.8xlarge | $0.15 |
Vendor refund policy
No refund but 2 weeks free trail is available to try out the AMI.
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Delivery details
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.
Version release notes
K3S-1.35.5 with OS security fixes released on June 9th, 2026 for Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Spin up a node using this AMI.
- After the node is up and running, check if the k8s service is running by using command, kubectl get nodes. It should list the EC2 node as the member.
- To connect to this node from remote hosts, use KUBECONFIG file from this server node and update the server address with the name or IP address of this node.
Support
Vendor support
Support for this product is provided by Kurian. For assistance with installation, configuration, or operational issues, please contact us at contact@kurianinc.us . Our support team typically responds within 24 hours. Additional information and contact details are available at
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