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This product has charges associated with it for support, maintenance, and pre-configuration to be instantaneously deployed on AWS Marketplace with all security and enterprise standards. Squid Proxy Server Image is packaged to leverage cost-effectiveness, scalability, and flexibility.
Overview
This a ready-to-run and pre-configured Squid Proxy Cache Server on CentOS Stream 9 Image has a wide variety of uses, including speeding up a web server by caching repeated requests, caching web, DNS, and other computer network lookups for a group of people sharing network resources, and aiding security by filtering traffic.
After Squid Proxy Cache Server on CentOS Stream 9 is installed, web browsers can be configured to use it as a proxy HTTP server, allowing Squid to retain copies of the documents returned, which, on repeated requests for the same documents, can reduce access time as well as bandwidth consumption. It can be useful for Internet service providers to increase speed to their customers, and LANs that share an Internet connection.
Features:
- Squid handles all requests in a single, non-blocking, I/O-driven process over IPv4 or IPv6.
- Squid keeps metadata and especially hot objects cached in RAM
- Caches DNS lookups, supports non-blocking DNS lookups
- Implements negative caching of failed requests.
- Squid supports SSL, extensive access controls, and full request logging.
- By using the lightweight Internet Cache Protocol, Squid caches can be arranged in a hierarchy or mesh for additional bandwidth savings.
Although primarily used for HTTP and FTP, Squid includes limited support for several other protocols including Internet Gopher, SSL, TLS, and HTTPS.
Highlights
- Rich access control, authorization, and logging environment to develop web proxy and content serving applications
- Rich set of traffic optimization options, most of which are enabled by default
- An excellent solution to a variety of proxy and caching server needs, and scales from the branch office to enterprise level networks while providing extensive, granular access control mechanisms
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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CentOs CentOS Stream 9
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t2.medium Recommended | $0.019 |
t3.micro | $0.019 |
t2.micro | $0.019 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.019 |
m5d.4xlarge | $0.019 |
t3.medium | $0.019 |
t2.nano | $0.019 |
m5dn.16xlarge | $0.019 |
m5ad.12xlarge | $0.019 |
t3.2xlarge | $0.019 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for the EC2 instance type you choose to run this proxy cache server. The software price is the same across all instances; your cost scales with the compute size you select. Options range from small burstable types (t2 and t3 families) to larger general-purpose types (m3, m4, m5 and related variants), including bare metal. Larger instances give more CPU and memory and bill at a higher hourly rate. You only pay while an instance runs, with no term commitment.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
Each unit is one running EC2 instance of the type you select, billed per hour. The hourly rate covers the software license plus the compute size. Larger instance types carry more CPU and memory and bill at a higher hourly rate. You pick one instance type and pay for the hours it runs.
The software license meters running time only. Software charges stop when you stop or terminate the instance. Stopped instances may still incur underlying AWS storage fees for attached volumes, but no software hourly charge accrues while the instance is not running.
The proxy server starts automatically when the VM launches. You connect over SSH using a key pair as the ec2-user, then set clients to use port 3128. Billing covers the running instance hours only. User management, configuration, and setup carry no separate software charge.
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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.
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If you faced any problem, check the Usage Guide at https://tidalmediainc.com/guide-how-to-start-squid-proxy-server-on-centos-9-on-amazon/ support@tidalmediainc.com
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