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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and setup support.
Valkey is the open-source Redis-compatible cache by the Linux Foundation - the safe, BSD-licensed alternative after Redis changed its license. This Lynxroute build is hardened and ready out of the box: strong password at first boot, localhost-only binding, FLUSHALL disabled, and CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.
Drop-in Redis replacement compatible with all existing Redis clients.
BSD-3-Clause 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 VALKEY
Valkey is the open-source, high-performance Redis-compatible in-memory data store maintained by the Linux Foundation - forked from Redis OSS 7.2 in 2024 when Redis Inc. relicensed to BSL. It supports the full Redis API including strings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, streams, pub/sub messaging, Lua scripting, transactions, geospatial commands, hyperloglog, bitmaps and the modules ecosystem. Operators get RDB snapshots and AOF persistence to local disk, replica replication and cluster sharding for horizontal scale. Drop-in compatible with all existing Redis clients across Java, Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby and 100+ other languages and frameworks - no application code changes required. BSD-3-Clause license - the safe vendor-neutral path forward for self-hosted Redis users.
WHAT THIS AMI ADDS
Security hardening:
- Strong random password at first boot - no default or empty password
- Binds to 127.0.0.1 only - not exposed to the network by default
- FLUSHALL and FLUSHDB disabled
- UFW firewall - port 6379 blocked externally, SSH on 22 only
- fail2ban, AppArmor
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
- Security baked in: strong password at first boot, localhost-only binding, FLUSHALL disabled.
- 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.
- Drop-in Redis replacement: full Redis API compatibility. Linux Foundation BSD-3-Clause license - no vendor lock-in, ever.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.small Recommended | $0.03 |
t3.micro | $0.03 |
m6i.large | $0.05 |
m6i.xlarge | $0.05 |
t3.large | $0.05 |
t3.medium | $0.05 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the EC2 instance size you run. The six options map to standard AWS instance types. The t3 sizes (t3.micro, t3.small, t3.medium, t3.large) are burstable instances that scale from smaller to larger compute and memory. The m6i sizes (m6i.large, m6i.xlarge) offer general-purpose compute, with m6i.xlarge providing more capacity than m6i.large. You pick the size matching your workload, and hourly billing scales with the size and runtime you choose.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The software rate meters running instance-hours. A fully stopped instance stops accruing the hourly software charge. You may still pay underlying AWS fees, such as storage for the attached volume, while the instance is stopped. Billing resumes when you start the instance again.
Each option runs the hardened Valkey image on the matching EC2 instance size. The t3 sizes are burstable general-purpose instances. The m6i sizes are fixed-performance general-purpose instances. Every image ships CIS Level 1 hardened on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, with per-instance credentials generated at first boot.
Yes. Because billing meters instance-hours per size, you can stop the instance and relaunch on a larger size. Charges then follow the new size's hourly rate. There is no upfront commitment, so you only pay for the size and hours you actually run.
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Version release notes
Valkey 9.1.2
- Valkey 9.1.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS - security update from 9.1.1. BSD-3-Clause unchanged
- Fixes GHSA-fq2f-crmw-q97r: an unauthenticated use-after-free of the Lua interpreter state, caused by a process-global script debugger command table that cached a pointer to a freed interpreter and was never invalidated
- Fixes GHSA-jcj7-v34w-v9vv: a use-after-free in RDMA connection handling reachable through CLIENT KILL. This build has no RDMA listener and was not exposed to it
- Closes several ACL gaps: HGETEX now requires write permission on the key, duplicate STORE options can no longer let GEORADIUS write outside permitted key patterns, MOVE and COPY check access to the destination database, and a NUL embedded in a TLS certificate CN can no longer impersonate another user
- Hardens loading of untrusted data: listpacks are always validated on RDB load and RESTORE, and stream, cluster-bus and slot-import payloads are validated against crafted input
- Fixes a permanent client deadlock when a blocking command is followed by a partially delivered pipelined command, a frozen monotonic clock on hosts with an unsynchronized TSC that stopped key expiration, a stack overflow when retrying a large TLS write, and AOF loss of newer writes after a short read in a MULTI block
- Root volume increased from 8 GB to 10 GB for headroom above the hardened base
- Rebuilt on the latest CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Launch instance (t3.small recommended)
- Open Security Group - add TCP 22 from your own admin IP (for example 203.0.113.4/32). The recommended rules cover private RFC1918 ranges only; a default VPC is 172.31.0.0/16 and matches neither, so without this step you cannot reach step 4.
- SSH: ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@<PUBLIC_IP>
- Get password: sudo cat /root/valkey-credentials.txt
- Connect on the instance: valkey-cli -a <password>
Valkey listens on 127.0.0.1:6379 and is blocked at the host firewall by default - an in-memory cache should never listen on a public interface. To reach it from your application servers (never from 0.0.0.0/0): a. sudo sed -i 's/^bind 127.0.0.1 -::1/bind 0.0.0.0/' /etc/valkey/valkey.conf sudo systemctl restart valkey b. sudo ufw allow from 10.0.0.0/16 to any port 6379 proto tcp c. The Security Group already permits 6379 from 10.0.0.0/16 and 10.2.0.0/16 - narrow it to your actual subnet if it differs.
Valkey has no web console - it is a cache, driven by valkey-cli and your client libraries. Credentials are saved to /root/valkey-credentials.txt at first boot.
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Vendor support
Lynxroute is not affiliated with the Linux Foundation or LF Projects LLC - this AMI packages the BSD-3-Clause open-source Valkey distribution as a self-hosted EC2 service (distinct from AWS ElastiCache for Valkey, which is a managed offering). "Valkey" is a trademark of LF Projects LLC.
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