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This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, and embeddable scripting language commonly used for extending applications.
Overview
Lua 5.5.0 on Ubuntu 26.04 with Free Maintenance Support by kCloud
This AWS Marketplace offering provides a ready-to-run installation of Lua 5.5.0 on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Designed for developers, system administrators, and cloud engineers, it delivers a lightweight, high-performance scripting environment that is easy to deploy and integrate into a wide range of applications.
Lua is one of the world's most efficient and embeddable scripting languages, widely used in game development, embedded systems, automation, configuration management, networking applications, and cloud-native environments. Its small footprint, simplicity, and flexibility make it an excellent choice for projects where performance and resource efficiency are important.
Core Capabilities
This solution includes Lua 5.5.0 pre-installed and configured on Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. It provides the complete Lua language implementation, standard libraries, full C API support, and dynamic module loading capabilities.
- Full Lua 5.5.0 interpreter and standard libraries.
- Support for dynamic loading of C modules and extensions.
- Clean and simple scripting syntax.
- Lightweight runtime with minimal system requirements.
- Suitable for embedded, cloud, and application scripting environments.
Integration and Performance
Lua runs directly on the operating system without requiring containers or heavyweight runtime environments. Its efficient virtual machine and compact architecture provide excellent performance while maintaining low memory usage.
- Native execution on Ubuntu 26.04.
- Direct access to system resources and libraries.
- Simple and powerful C/C++ integration.
- Easy embedding into existing applications.
- Excellent performance for scripting and automation tasks.
- Low CPU and memory overhead.
Developers can seamlessly combine Lua scripts with native code to build flexible, high-performance applications.
AWS Marketplace Ready
This solution is optimized for deployment on Amazon EC2 and integrates easily into modern AWS workflows.
- Quick deployment through AWS Marketplace.
- Pre-configured Ubuntu 26.04 LTS environment.
- Amazon EC2 ready AMI.
Highlights
- Designed to be compact and efficient - the full interpreter is under 500 KB.
- Easily integrates with C and C++ applications through a simple and powerful C API.
- Supports procedural, object-oriented, functional, and data-driven programming styles.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m4.large Recommended | $0.03 |
t3.micro | $0.03 |
t2.micro | $0.01 |
t2.large | $0.03 |
r4.large | $0.03 |
r3.large | $0.03 |
t3.large | $0.03 |
t3.nano | $0.03 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.03 |
t2.medium | $0.03 |
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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.
Version release notes
Packaged with latest updates as of June 2026.
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Usage instructions
Usage Instructions
Launch the EC2 instance from AWS Marketplace and ensure that Security Group rules allow SSH access on port 22.
Connect to the Linux instance using the username "ubuntu":
ssh -i <your-key.pem> ubuntu@<public-ip-address>
After logging in, run the following commands to update the system and verify the Lua installation:
sudo apt update lua -v
If required, install additional Lua modules using LuaRocks. Configuration and application files can be managed according to your project requirements.
For detailed product documentation and configuration guidance, visit: https://your-domain.com/documentation
For support and maintenance assistance, visit: https://your-domain.com/support
Support
Vendor support
Feel free to reach out anytime. Our support team is available 24x7 for assistance. Email: meha@kcloudhubs.com
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