Overview
FreeBSD is an operating system used to power servers, desktops, and embedded systems. Derived from BSD, the version of UNIX developed at the University of California, Berkeley, FreeBSD has been continually developed by a large community for more than 30 years. FreeBSD's networking, security, storage, and monitoring features, including the pf firewall, the Capsicum capability frameworks, the ZFS filesystem, and the DTrace dynamic tracing framework, make FreeBSD the platform of choice for many of the busiest web sites and most pervasive embedded networking and storage systems.
Highlights
- FreeBSD provides access to over 33,000 third-party applications via the ports tree and binary packages.
- FreeBSD's widely-recognized stability and reliability and lengthy support for stable branches makes it ideal for building long-lived services.
- Between Capsicum, Jails, and support for multiple firewalls, FreeBSD provides an unsurpassed security feature set.
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.00 | $0.006 | $0.006 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.00 | $0.012 | $0.012 |
t2.small | $0.00 | $0.023 | $0.023 |
t2.medium | $0.00 | $0.046 | $0.046 |
t2.large | $0.00 | $0.093 | $0.093 |
t2.xlarge | $0.00 | $0.186 | $0.186 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.00 | $0.371 | $0.371 |
t3.nano | $0.00 | $0.005 | $0.005 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier Recommended | $0.00 | $0.01 | $0.01 |
t3.small | $0.00 | $0.021 | $0.021 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes | $0.08/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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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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This AMI launches with sshd running and the SSH public key you provide at launch time allowed to log in as ec2-user with passwordless "su" to root. To use this AMI, ensure that your EC2 security group allows SSH (tcp/22) from your location, and then "ssh ec2-user@<Instance IP address>".
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It really depends on what you want to use it for.
LOVE FreeBSD Unix!
Our favorite and beloved FreeBSD Unix is here! Thank You! :-)
This is a rock solid Open-Source Unix from the BSD family, created by real Unix gurus with strong real world experience since 199x, without enforced changes ideology, amazingly friendly to configure and maintain in the long term, uses /etc/rc.conf text file system wide configuration, lots of precompiled packages allows out-of-the-box automations to bring a service in just seconds/minutes, lots of ported Open-Source-Software (so called FreeBSD Ports) in the /usr/ports also makes it possible to build your own customized features of the desired packages.
BSD license allows you to close-source your final product (see Apple's OSX/macOS, Sony's PlayStation, etc), but FreeBSD is still pioneering the real Open-Source innovation that later shows up in other OS (i.e. TCP/IP/IPv6 stack, Ports, Jails Sandboxing, bhyve supervisor/virtualization, ZFS filesystem, and many many more).
Excellent!
Excellent AMI from official FreeBSD project. Perfectly functional in Amazon Web Services and is ready to use! Thanks a lot!
Excelent image
Latest release of stable FreeBSD 13 with patch 7 at the time of writing this. Ready to use with no unnecessary services enabled.