This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for patching the operating system and the maintenance provided by Kurian.

Linux Operating System AMIs by Kurian are patched and up-to-date on the day of the release, and the updates are published every quarter. These AMIs are ideal for using with automated provisioning processes such as that in an auto-scale group without having to worry about the availability of latest patches and the delay of applying patches before adding the machines to a cluster.

Based on this baseline operating system, Kurian has released pre-configured software applications such as Wordpress, Jenkins, databases, LAMP stack, Ansible, DevOps tools, and monitoring applications that are widely used by system administrators and DevOps engineers. For selected Linux distributions, hardened images based on CIS benchmarks are also available. The Kurian AMIs are built following official installation steps so you do not need to learn any custom procedures.