Canonical and AWS work together to make Ubuntu worker nodes available for Amazon's Elastic Kubernetes Services (EKS), allowing customers to get the best of both worlds: A fully managed Kubernetes service with the Ubuntu ecosystem under the hood.
You can also upgrade to Ubuntu Pro and activate additional security features such as FIPS mode, Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM), CIS or DISA-STIG hardening and Kernel Livepatch for getting Kernel security patches without unplanned downtime.
These images are based on the official Ubuntu Minimal LTS and include the custom Ubuntu-aws optimized kernel. They have been built specifically for the EKS service, therefore are not intended as general OS images.
To deploy Ubuntu worker nodes on EKS, you can use eksctl, EC2 Launch templates on the EKS web console, Cloudformation templates and other mechanisms.
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AWS managed Kubernetes on Ubuntu AWS-optimized worker nodes
Based on minimal Ubuntu for best performance and security
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This listing is free to use, so the software itself carries no charge across all options. Each dimension maps to a specific Arm-based EC2 instance type billed hourly. You pick the instance that matches your EKS worker node needs, from small sizes like t4g.nano up to bare-metal sizes like c8g.metal-48xl. Pricing scales with the compute, memory, storage, or networking profile of the instance family you select. Compute-optimized (c), general-purpose (m), memory-optimized (r, x), storage (i, is), and GPU (g5g) families are represented. You are billed only for the underlying instance hours you run.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What counts as one billable unit for each dimension listed?
Each dimension maps to one EC2 instance type, billed per instance-hour. One unit equals one running Arm-based worker node of that instance type for one hour. A c8g.4xlarge node running for one hour is one billable hour. Running two such nodes doubles the hours counted.
Does the Ubuntu software itself add a charge on top of the instance cost?
No. This listing is free to use, so the software carries no charge. You pay only the underlying AWS instance-hour cost for the Arm-based instance type you select. The Ubuntu image on the EKS worker node adds nothing beyond that compute cost.
Am I charged when a worker node is stopped or powered off?
Instance-hour charges apply while a node runs. A fully stopped node stops accruing instance-hour charges. Underlying AWS storage attached to that node may still incur separate AWS fees. The hourly metering here counts running time only, so idle stopped nodes do not add hours.
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