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Wind River eLxr™ 26.04 (Bianca) is a community maintained Enterprise Linux distribution built on the open-source eLxr project, which is based on Debian 13 and Linux Kernel 6.12. It delivers deployment and operations for AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) environments with enterprise-grade kernel stability, open-source security maintenance and CVE remediation, ecosystem certification, and lifecycle management, and compatibility with AI and cloud-native workloads.
Overview
eLxr™ 26.04
eLxr™ 26.04 (Bianca) is an open-source community maintained Enterprise Linux distribution for organizations running mission-critical and high-performance workloads across distributed environments in the industrial, retail, telecommunications, medical, and financial services sectors.
Built on Debian 13 and Linux Kernel 6.12 LTS, eLxr™ extends the Debian ecosystem with open-source community lifecycle management, curated package maintenance, vulnerability remediation, certified ecosystem integrations, and operational tooling for production deployment.
Learn more about eLxr on our community web page: eLxr.org
eLxr is for deployment on modern AWS EC2 instance families and enterprise cloud environments.
Performance and Infrastructure Features
- AWS EC2 deployment enablement
- Linux Real-Time Kernel (PREEMPT_RT)
- SR-IOV networking
- PCI passthrough capabilities
- DPDK userspace networking
- NUMA-aware workload deployment
- Huge Pages
- CPU isolation capabilities
- IRQ affinity and workload tuning
- Throughput and packet-processing optimization
- Software RAID
- Hardware-assisted virtualization
- Open vSwitch, Linux Bridge, NAT, and VETH networking
- Enterprise performance tuning guidance
- Signed and authenticated package repositories
Lifecycle Services
- Open-source upstream community package maintenance
- eLxr community repositories
- Regular security updates
- Authenticated and GPG-signed repositories
- Enterprise package lifecycle management
- Secure software delivery practices
Security Tooling
- Trivy package inclusion and maintenance for SBOM generation
- AppArmor framework and security profiles
- Active Directory integration
- OpenLDAP integration
- Kerberos authentication
- SAML federation
- OAuth
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Open-source cryptographic libraries
Identity integration software packages included for:
Cloud-Native and Modern Workload & Platform Enablement
- Kubernetes ecosystem and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Container platform and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Virtualization platform enablement and aligned upstream maintenance lifecycle
- Infrastructure automation tooling
- Performance-focused Linux kernel foundation
Virtualization and MicroVM Technologies
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- KVM
- QEMU
- Libvirt
- KubeVirt
- Xen
- Incus (LXC)
Kubernetes and Container Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- Kubernetes
- K3s
- Containerd
- Docker
- Podman
- CRI-O
- Runc
Developer Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- OpenJDK
- Python
- Node.js
- Go
- Rust
- Ruby
- GCC
- G++
Observability Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- Prometheus
- Grafana
- Nagios
- Zabbix
Storage Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- OpenZFS
- Ceph
- GlusterFS
- NFS
- ext4
Databases
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- MariaDB
Web Platforms
Open-source package inclusion and community maintenance for:- NGINX
- HAProxy
- Apache HTTP Server
- Lighttpd
Certified Ecosystem
The following solutions are validated and certified for deployment on eLxr.Security and Operations
- CrowdStrike
- Tenable
- Tanium
- Rapid7
- BeyondTrust
- Trivy
Infrastructure Automation
- Terraform
- Ansible
Data Protection
- Veeam
AI and Machine Learning
Validated deployment of:- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- ONNX
- Intel OpenVINO
Certification indicates validation and interoperability testing by the eLxr community. Certification does not imply the vendor reviewed or that vendor IP is distributed, maintained, or supported.
For more insights into our eLxr features and packages, please navigate to eLxr community webpage or subscribe to our community forums .
Highlights
- Enterprise Linux distribution built on Debian 13 (Trixie), with curated package maintenance, security updates, and CVE remediation.
- Cloud-ready operating environment optimized for AWS EC2 deployments, including kubernetes, containers, virtualization, observability, AI, and developer software, tooling, and ecosystem enablement.
- Certified ecosystem of infrastructure, automation, security, observability, backup, and AI workloads. Optional commercial support subscriptions available from Wind River.
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If you are an AWS Free Tier customer with a free plan, you are eligible to subscribe to this offer. You can use free credits to cover the cost of eligible AWS infrastructure. See AWS Free Tier for more details. If you created an AWS account before July 15th, 2025, and qualify for the Legacy AWS Free Tier, Amazon EC2 charges for Micro instances are free for up to 750 hours per month. See Legacy AWS Free Tier for more details.
Dimensions summary
This listing is free, so the software itself carries no license charge. Pricing here reflects only the AWS EC2 instance you run it on, billed hourly. You pick from many instance families to match your workload. General-purpose (m and t) types balance compute and memory. Compute-optimized (c and hpc) types focus on processing power, including high-performance computing sizes. Memory-optimized (r) types suit memory-heavy work. Within each family, sizes scale from nano and medium up to 96xlarge. You pay more per hour as size and capacity increase. Choose the size that fits your needs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
You pay only the AWS EC2 infrastructure charge for the instance you run. The eLxr Server software adds no license fee. Your hourly cost reflects the compute, memory, and instance family you select. Underlying AWS storage and data transfer are billed separately by AWS.
Hourly charges accrue only while the instance runs. A fully stopped instance stops accruing hourly software and compute charges. Attached storage may still incur AWS fees while stopped. Billing meters running time, so pausing workloads reduces your hourly cost.
Each family targets a workload type. The t and m types balance compute and memory for general use. The c and hpc types focus on processing power, including high-performance computing sizes. The r types suit memory-heavy work. Pick the family matching your workload, then scale the size up or down.
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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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Vendor support
eLxr 26.04 - Bianca is an open source, enterprise-grade Linux distribution designed for edge-to-cloud use cases. It is community maintained through the eLxr Project at forums.elxr.org . It does not include commercial vendor support from Wind River.
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