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    FreeBSD 10

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    FreeBSD is an operating system used to power servers, desktops, and embedded systems.

    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.

    Details

    Delivery method

    Delivery option
    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Latest version

    Operating system
    FreeBsd 10

    Typical total price

    This estimate is based on use of the seller's recommended configuration (t2.micro) in the US East (N. Virginia) Region. View pricing details

    $0.012/hour

    Pricing

    Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time.
    Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator  to estimate your infrastructure costs.

    Usage costs (66)

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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
    Recommended
    $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
    m3.medium
    $0.00
    $0.067
    $0.067
    m3.large
    $0.00
    $0.133
    $0.133
    m3.xlarge
    $0.00
    $0.266
    $0.266

    Additional AWS infrastructure costs

    Type
    Cost
    EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes
    $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage

    Vendor refund policy

    This is a free product.

    Legal

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    Vendors are responsible for their product descriptions and other product content. AWS does not warrant that vendors' product descriptions or other product content are accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

    Usage information

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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.

    Additional details

    Usage instructions

    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@".

    Support

    Vendor support

    Support for FreeBSD is available via the mailing lists and FreeBSD Forums.

    AWS infrastructure support

    AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.

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    Libraries

    FreeBSD 10 is an excellent operating system, basically UNIX but modern.

    Reviewed on Nov 07, 2021
    Review provided by G2
    What do you like best about the product?
    FreeBSD performs well, even on older hardware. I have used it to continue using older hardware that would have otherwise been disposed of. It is secure and robust. It has excellent package management (pkg) and a large collection of ported software from Linux. Documentation is excellent (FreeBSD Handbook).
    What do you dislike about the product?
    Installation can be tricky for first-timers; you will probably need some experience with Linux before trying to use FreeBSD. You need to be comfortable using a command-line terminal most of the time.
    What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
    As FreeBSD is free - the ROI is at least the cost of some commercial Linux or Windows based OS (which can be very expensive). It allowed me to re-use older hardware that would have otherwise been disposed. I used it as a no-cost development environment.
    kgibran

    Using this for Redmine on t2.nano.

    Reviewed on Aug 09, 2016
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Wanted a micro/small instance which can host a low traffic Redmine instance. The Bitnami AMIs on GNU/Linux don't allow you to select t2 instances. So my next obvious choice was FreeBSD which has a recent version of Redmine in its repositories.

    I am delighted to see the CPU credits getting saved as the OS itself is not utilizing significant CPU. Next, I can jail Redmine on this and upgrade to the next version of Redmine(when it is released) without affecting the users!

    Pros: Uses UFS, not ZFS - Ideal for low end servers. Is lean, not too many applications installed using pkg.

    Suggested Improvements: "su -" works without password, instead use sudo/doas.

    Nostalg.io

    Performance is incredible

    Reviewed on Jul 03, 2016
    Purchase verified by AWS

    The performance on this AMI is incredible. My new FreeBSD server, which is half the size of my old Ubuntu server, is incredibly fast and efficient.

    This OS uses a lot less RAM. Everything was already configured, so I just had to run a few lines, install some packages, and voila--a Minecraft server that barely uses 250MB when in use!!

    David

    Great job

    Reviewed on Jun 29, 2016
    Purchase verified by AWS

    Great job, But ZFS is preferred to instead of UFS. Any plan to enable ZFS filesystem in the future version?

    Chris

    How to add IPs

    Reviewed on Jun 04, 2016
    Purchase verified by AWS
    1. Add additional private IPs to your instance in EC2 dashboard (optional, one for each Elastic IP)

      2. Find out what gateway you're currently using (look at first line under gateway):
      > netstat -rn

      3. Edit: /etc/rc.conf
      > vi /etc/rc.conf

      comment-out this line:
      ifconfig_DEFAULT="SYNCDHCP"

      Add these lines, adjust as necessary (subnet seems to always be /20):
      defaultrouter="172.31.48.1"
      ifconfig_xn0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"
      ifconfig_xn0_alias0="inet 172.31.xx.xx/20"

      4. Shutdown instance
      > shutdown -p now

      5. Create new Elastic IP(s) in EC2 dashboard and point them to your private IP(s)

      6. Start instance
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