Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Run your containerized workloads on a foundation that is secure by default, eliminating the endless cycle of CVE patching and remediation that drains your team's time and resources.
Why Chainguard Container Hosts?
Secure base from day one: Minimal VM images built entirely from source in our SLSA Level 2 environment include only essential components, eliminating bloat and vulnerabilities
Stop chasing CVEs: No more valuable engineering time spent on emergency patching, security advisories, or remediation tickets, allowing your teams to focus on building features, not fixing CVEs.
FIPS variants: Includes FIPS requirements, hardening to STIG guidelines, and CIS Benchmark Level 1
Chainguard offers custom pricing through AWS Marketplace Private Offers. Contact aws-marketplace@chainguard.dev for more information on our enterprise pricing.
Highlights
Low-to-zero known CVEs with frequent patches and rebuilds
Complete supply chain transparency with full SLSA Build Level 2 provenance, signatures, and SBOMs
Compliant variants with FIPS requirements, hardening to STIG guidelines, and CIS Benchmark Level 1
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
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You pay by the hour for each running instance, with no upfront commitment. Pricing is tied to the AWS arm64 instance type you choose to run this FIPS-validated container host. The many options map to instance families (t4g, c-series, m-series, r-series, i-series, x-series) and sizes from nano up to 24xlarge. Larger instances with more compute, memory, or storage cost more per hour. You select the instance that fits your workload, and your hourly rate scales with that size. Charges accrue only while instances run.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What am I actually paying for with this hourly software charge on top of the AWS instance?
You pay for the FIPS-validated container host software that runs on your chosen arm64 instance. It is a minimal Linux image built to run containers, with FIPS 140-3 cryptography and STIG hardening. The hourly rate covers this software license. Underlying AWS compute charges are billed separately by AWS.
Am I charged when an instance is stopped, and does the rate change if I resize?
Charges accrue only while an instance runs. Stopped instances stop the hourly software charge, though AWS storage fees may still apply separately. If you move your workload to a different instance type or size, your hourly rate changes to match the new selection. Changes are not automatic; you choose the instance.
Does running more instances at once multiply my charges?
Yes. Each running instance is billed separately by the hour, based on its own instance type. If you run several instances, the hourly rates add together across all of them. Your total scales with both the number of running instances and the size of each one.
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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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Chainguard ECS FIPS arm64 20260817-0317
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This AMI is intended for Amazon ECS container instances. Deploy it by launching an Amazon EC2 instance and have it join an Amazon ECS cluster by following the documentation for configuring Amazon ECS Agent. If you specified the name of a key pair at launch, you can use SSH to connect to the instance as "ec2-user".
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Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
Deploy your containerized workloads in a threat-resistant environment by leveraging Chainguard container hosts, backed by our CVE remediation SLA, helping you eliminate developer toil and enabling your team to focus on innovation instead of patching vulnerabilities. These minimal, low-to-zero-CVE container hosts are built entirely from source in Chainguard's SLSA Level 2 infrastructure. These container hosts include only those components required to run as a container host, along with an optimized kernel.
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