This product has charges associated with it for hardening, security configuration, and support.
Meilisearch is a lightning-fast, typo-tolerant search engine shipped as a single Rust binary, exposing a developer-friendly REST API for full-text, semantic, and hybrid search. Unlike bare Meilisearch AMIs that run in development mode with no master key, leave the API open on a public port with no TLS, and report anonymous analytics by default, this Lynxroute build is ready out of the box: production mode with a strong master key generated at first boot, the engine bound to localhost behind an nginx TLS reverse proxy on 443, analytics disabled, UFW firewall pre-configured, and a CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base.
MIT license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and support.
WHAT IS MEILISEARCH
Meilisearch is a fast, typo-tolerant open-source search engine written in Rust and shipped as a single statically linked binary, purpose-built for the search-as-a-feature use case. It serves a REST API over indexed documents with sub-50ms query latency and supports prefix search, typo tolerance, faceting and filtering, sorting, geo search, synonyms, stop words, and semantic and hybrid search via vector embeddings. Documents and indexes are persisted to an embedded LMDB store on the local filesystem. Applications integrate through official client SDKs (JavaScript, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, Rust, Java, .NET and more), authenticating with the master key or scoped API keys minted from it. This image runs the single-node Community Edition, which is fully MIT licensed - a self-hosted search backend for any application, with no per-query fees and no vendor lock-in.
WHAT THIS AMI ADDS
Security hardening:
Strong random master key generated per instance at first boot (production mode - the API rejects unauthenticated calls)
Engine bound to 127.0.0.1 only; nginx terminates TLS on 443 and reverse-proxies to it; HTTP redirects to HTTPS
certbot and the nginx plugin pre-installed - enable a Let's Encrypt certificate with one command
Anonymous analytics disabled
UFW firewall - ports 80 and 443 only; SSH on 22
fail2ban, AppArmor
CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release
OS hardening (CIS Level 1):
CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md
Highlights
Meilisearch security baked in: strong master key generated at first boot, engine bound to localhost behind an nginx TLS proxy on 443, analytics disabled - unlike bare Meilisearch AMIs that run in development mode with no master key and leave the API open on a public port with no TLS.
CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: auditd, fail2ban, AppArmor, SSH key-only, IMDSv2 enforced. CVE-scanned before every release. SBOM (CycloneDX) and CIS Conformance Report included.
API-first self-hosted search: typo-tolerant full-text plus semantic and hybrid vector search over a simple REST API and official SDKs - no per-query pricing. MIT license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
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You pay by the hour based on the EC2 instance size you choose to run this hardened search engine image. Three options are available: t3.small, t3.medium, and t3.large. These represent different compute sizes, not feature tiers. Every option delivers the same hardened, pre-configured image; only the underlying instance capacity changes. You pick the size that fits your workload, and billing accrues per hour of use. Larger instances carry more compute and memory. This usage-based model means you pay only for the hours your chosen instance runs.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What compute resources come with each t3 instance size?
Each option maps to an EC2 t3 instance running the hardened search engine image. t3.small has the least compute and memory, t3.medium sits in the middle, and t3.large has the most. All three run the same pre-configured image; only the underlying instance capacity differs.
Am I charged when my instance is stopped or paused?
Software charges accrue per hour while your chosen instance runs. A fully stopped instance does not accrue hourly software charges. Stopped instances may still incur underlying AWS storage fees for the attached volume. The software meters running time only.
What security work is already done in each image before I deploy?
Every image ships hardened to a CIS Level 1 benchmark on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. It includes SSH and kernel hardening, a firewall, intrusion prevention, and audit logging. A software bill of materials and conformance report are bundled inside. Unique credentials are generated at first boot.
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Call the API over HTTPS with the master key as a Bearer token:
curl -k -H "Authorization: Bearer MASTER_KEY" https://<PUBLIC_IP>/keys
Create an index, add documents and search:
curl -k -X POST https://<PUBLIC_IP>/indexes -H "Authorization: Bearer MASTER_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" --data-binary '{"uid":"movies","primaryKey":"id"}'
Meilisearch runs API-first in production mode - there is no browser dashboard;
manage it through the REST API or an official client SDK.
The master key is generated at first boot and stored in /root/meilisearch-credentials.txt.
The site uses a self-signed certificate (accept the browser warning, or pass -k to curl).
For production, replace it with a CA-signed certificate: sudo certbot --nginx -d yourdomain.com
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This product has charges associated with it for technical support with a 24-hour response time. This AMI provides OpenSearch 2.19 on a Rocky Linux 9 minimal installation with the latest updates, repackaged by Easycloud with continuous support.
This product has charges associated with it for image hardening, maintenance, and support. Meilisearch on Amazon Linux 2023, security-hardened for production: minimal package set, SSH key-only access, IMDSv2-only, production mode with a per-instance master key generated on first boot (never baked into the image), and continuously patched images.
This product has charges associated with it for seller support. Simple, Secure and Supported deployment with the Hossted CLI, for easy self-maintenance.
Meilisearch is a fast, AI-powered Search platform that helps teams build scalable, relevant, and intuitive discovery experiences. With native support for full-text, semantic, and vector search, it blends traditional ranking with modern AI in a simple, unified API. Use it for product search, enterprise knowledge bases, RAG pipelines, or chat search.
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