Overview
BIND 9.20.11 on Ubuntu 24.04 With free maintenance support by bCloud
BIND 9 DNS Server on AWS Marketplace
This AWS Cloud Marketplace offering delivers BIND 9, the world most widely used open-source DNS server, packaged as ready-to-deploy virtual machine images on Ubuntu 24.04.
BIND stands for Berkeley Internet Name Domain. It is trusted globally for its flexibility, scalability, and security. It supports authoritative DNS, recursive resolution, and caching in a single platform, making it suitable for startups, enterprises, and service providers.
Core Features
- Core BIND 9 DNS engine supporting authoritative, recursive, and caching modes
- Support for master, slave, stub, forward, delegation, and dynamic zones
- DNSSEC for cryptographic protection and data integrity
- High performance and stability, capable of handling large query volumes
- Fully open source, licensed under MPL 2.0
- AWS-ready VM image designed for fast launch and easy scaling
Available Product Variants
1. BIND on Ubuntu 24.04 (Minimal, Automation-Friendly)
Best suited for teams that prefer CLI-driven and automated deployments.
- Lightweight Ubuntu 24.04 VM
- No GUI, ideal for Infrastructure as Code (IaC), scripts, and DevOps pipelines
- Secure, stable, and easy to integrate with AWS automation tools
Designed for teams that want visual management without sacrificing power.
- Ubuntu 22.04 with Webmin web-based GUI
- Manage DNS via browser or SSH
- Built-in support for DNS clustering and high availability
- TSIG-based access control
- Incremental zone transfers (IXFR)
- Advanced logging and error tracking
Built for security-sensitive and compliance-driven environments.
- CentOS Stream 9 VM
- Response Rate Limiting (RRL) to reduce amplification attacks
- Minimal ANY responses to limit abuse
- DLZ (Dynamically Loadable Zones) for database-backed DNS
- HSM integration via PKCS#11 for secure key storage
- Inline DNSSEC signing with full lifecycle support
- Zone reloads using RNDC without restarting the service
- Proven at every scale, from DNS root servers to enterprise networks
- Familiar to most network and cloud engineers
- Extremely flexible and highly configurable
- Backed by a large global open-source community
- Continuously updated to meet modern DNS standards
- DNS for EC2, VPC, and hybrid cloud environments
- Internal private DNS for microservices and applications
- External authoritative DNS with DNSSEC
- On-premises to AWS hybrid DNS resolution
- High-availability DNS clusters
This virtual machine offer includes only open-source software. All trademarks and software names belong to their respective owners. bCloud LLC does not provide a commercial license for BIND 9, which is licensed under MPL 2.0.
Highlights
- BIND 9 DNS engine supporting authoritative, recursive, and caching modes.
- Supports master, slave, stub, forward, and dynamic DNS zones.
- DNSSEC with inline signing for secure DNS responses.
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Pricing
Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
m4.large Recommended | $0.02 |
t2.micro | $0.001 |
t3.micro | $0.02 |
t3.medium | $0.02 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.02 |
t2.medium | $0.02 |
t3.nano | $0.02 |
r3.large | $0.02 |
r4.large | $0.02 |
t3.large | $0.02 |
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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 Jan/2026
Additional details
Usage instructions
Connect you your instance via SSH, the username is ubuntu. More info on SSH: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html - Run the following commands: #sudo su #sudo apt update To check the version of BIND run: #docker run --rm -it ubuntu/bind9 named -v
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