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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and setup support.
Apache APISIX is a cloud-native API gateway built on OpenResty (NGINX + LuaJIT), with dynamic routing, authentication, rate limiting, and an embedded management Dashboard. This Lynxroute build is hardened and ready out of the box: a single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to localhost, the Admin API and Dashboard locked to localhost and reachable only through a TLS perimeter, the default Admin API key rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, UFW firewall pre-configured, and a CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.
Apache-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and setup support.
WHAT IS APACHE APISIX
Apache APISIX is a cloud-native, high-performance API gateway built on OpenResty (NGINX + LuaJIT). It routes, secures, and observes API traffic through a large catalogue of plugins: key-auth, JWT, basic-auth, OpenID Connect, rate limiting, IP restriction, CORS, request and response transformation, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry. Routes, upstreams, consumers, and plugins are configured dynamically through the Admin API or the embedded web Dashboard, with no restart required. APISIX stores its configuration in etcd; this image bundles a single-node etcd locally, so there is no external etcd cluster to deploy, secure, or operate. Apache-2.0 license, no per-API fees, no vendor lock-in. The separate API7 Enterprise product is not part of this build - this is the full open-source gateway.
WHAT THIS AMI ADDS
Security hardening:
- Single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to 127.0.0.1 only - no external etcd cluster to deploy or expose
- Admin API and embedded Dashboard bound to 127.0.0.1 only; remote management via an Nginx TLS perimeter on port 443
- The historical default Admin API key is rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, saved to /root/apisix-credentials.txt
- Data plane on ports 9080 (HTTP) and 9443 (HTTPS)
- No anonymous telemetry; bundled OpenResty links OpenSSL 3.x
- UFW firewall - ports 22, 443, 9080, 9443
- fail2ban, AppArmor
- CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release
OS hardening (CIS Level 1):
- CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
- auditd, SSH hardening, Kernel hardening, IMDSv2 enforced
Compliance artifacts:
- SBOM - CycloneDX 1.6 at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
- CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
- CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md
Highlights
- Apache APISIX security baked in: the historical default Admin API key rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, the Admin API and embedded Dashboard locked to localhost behind a TLS perimeter, and a single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to localhost.
- CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: auditd, fail2ban, AppArmor, SSH key-only, IMDSv2 enforced. CVE-scanned before every release. SBOM (CycloneDX) and CIS Conformance Report included.
- Cloud-native API gateway on OpenResty: dynamic routing, key-auth, JWT, OpenID Connect, rate limiting, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry - managed through the Admin API or the embedded web Dashboard, with bundled local etcd. Apache-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.medium Recommended | $0.05 |
m6i.large | $0.05 |
m6i.xlarge | $0.05 |
t3.large | $0.05 |
t3.small | $0.03 |
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You pay by the hour based on the EC2 instance size you launch. The five options map to different compute capacities. The t3.small, t3.medium, and t3.large run on burstable instances that scale from lighter to heavier workloads. The m6i.large and m6i.xlarge use general-purpose instances for steadier, higher-capacity needs. Pricing rises as the instance size grows, so you choose the size that fits your API gateway traffic. There are no upfront commitments or fixed terms. The marketplace handles all billing, and you add standard AWS infrastructure charges separately.
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Each image ships on a hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base with CIS Level 1 OS hardening, a CVE scan, and unique credentials generated at first boot. A software bill of materials and a CIS Conformance Report are bundled inside the instance for audit or compliance review.
The software charge meters running instance-hours. A fully stopped instance stops accruing the hourly software fee. Stopped instances may still incur standard AWS storage charges for attached volumes, which are billed separately by AWS, not by this listing.
Images are rebuilt on a scheduled monthly cadence, with out-of-cycle rebuilds reviewed when a critical CVE appears. New releases publish as new marketplace versions; already-running instances are not modified. Support covers deployment and configuration questions with a 24-hour response target. Custom development and wider environment operation are not covered.
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Version release notes
Apache APISIX 3.19.0
- Apache APISIX upgraded to 3.19.0 (from 3.18.0) - Apache-2.0 unchanged
- Backward-incompatible: upstream.tls.verify is now honoured for https and grpcs upstreams, so an upstream already set to verify: true rejects a certificate it cannot validate; tls.ca_certs selects the trusted CAs per upstream
- Backward-incompatible: basic-auth rejects an empty consumer password, openid-connect validates the introspection issuer when valid_issuers is set, and batch-requests caps aggregated responses at 1 MiB per item and 10 MiB in total
- Backward-incompatible: successful WebSocket upgrades are labelled request_type=websocket in Prometheus metrics, and the control API reports empty healthcheck node lists as a JSON array
- New: TLS passthrough and multi-SNI matching on the stream proxy, a ws/wss upstream scheme, slow start for new upstream nodes and an openapi-to-mcp plugin
- Certbot pre-installed - enable HTTPS with one command: sudo certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com
- Rebuilt on the current CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base for the latest Ubuntu security updates
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Usage instructions
- Launch instance (t3.medium recommended; t3.small minimum)
- Open Security Group - allow TCP 9080, 9443 and 443 from your API clients, and TCP 22 from your IP
- SSH: ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@<PUBLIC_IP>
- Read credentials: sudo cat /root/apisix-credentials.txt
- Open the embedded Dashboard over TLS and paste the Admin API key from the credentials file: https://<PUBLIC_IP>/ui/ (accept the self-signed certificate on first visit)
- Or manage APISIX through the Admin API over the TLS perimeter (key sent as an HTTP header): curl -k https://<PUBLIC_IP>/apisix/admin/routes -H "X-API-KEY: your-admin-key"
- Create a route to a backend, then send traffic through the data plane: curl -k https://<PUBLIC_IP>/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: your-admin-key" -X PUT -d '{"uri":"/get","upstream":{"type":"roundrobin","nodes":{"httpbin.org:80":1}}}' curl http://<PUBLIC_IP>:9080/get (HTTP data plane)
The Admin API key is generated at first boot (the historical default key is rotated) and saved to /root/apisix-credentials.txt. Configuration is stored in a bundled single-node etcd on 127.0.0.1:2379 - there is no external etcd cluster to operate. The raw Admin API and Dashboard stay bound to 127.0.0.1; the only remote management path is the TLS perimeter on port 443. To serve HTTPS on the 9443 data plane, add an SSL certificate for your domain through the Dashboard (APISIX terminates TLS per-SNI). Replace the self-signed Dashboard TLS certificate with a CA-signed certificate for production use.
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Visit us online: https://lynxroute.com
For Apache APISIX documentation: https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/getting-started/ For Apache APISIX upstream issues:
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