+ Ubuntu Pro for Azure is a premium image delivering security and compliance for the OS and open source apps on Azure. The image offers critical and high CVE patching, security for over 30,000 open source packages, automated hardening for compliance, and more Ubuntu Pro is suitable for all size Linux enterprise operations with pay-as-you-go or annual billing on your existing Azure invoice. +
+ {%- endif -%} + {%- if slot == 'image' -%} +For production. For professionals.
-- Ubuntu Pro for Azure is a premium image delivering the most comprehensive open source security and Azure compliance. Ubuntu Pro is suitable for small to large-scale Linux enterprise operations offering pay-as-you-go billing on your existing Azure invoice. -
-+ Upgrade your Ubuntu Server instances to Ubuntu Pro. Using Azure CLI, upgrading requires no disruption to your services or VM redeployment. +
- Delivers additional layer of security and compliance services and security patches covering a wider range of packages, until 2034. + Ubuntu Pro 24.04 delivers additional layers of security and compliance services with security patches covering a wider range of packages, until 2034.
Upgrade to Ubuntu Pro, with no disruption to your services or VM redeployment.
-FIPS & CC-EAL2 certified
+FIPS & CC-EAL2 certified
Officially certified components to enable operating environments under compliance regimes like FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI and ISO.
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@CIS and DISA STIG
+CIS and DISA STIG
For companies looking to leverage industry benchmarks for hardening, Ubuntu Pro makes two leading implementation guides available.
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@Open source security
+Open source security
Ubuntu Pro adds security coverage for the most important open source applications like Apache Kafka, NGINX, Redis and PostgreSQL.
@@ -197,9 +197,9 @@Predictable and optimised
+Predictable and optimized
- Ubuntu Pro is based on Ubuntu and leverages both the breadth of open source included and the Azure optimisations built in. + Ubuntu Pro is based on Ubuntu and leverages both the breadth of open source included and the Azure optimizations built in.
Kernel Livepatch
+Kernel Livepatch
Ubuntu kernel updates are regularly issued. With our Livepatch service, kernel patches are delivered immediately, without the need to reboot your VMs.
@@ -219,9 +219,9 @@Priced for the cloud
+Billed through the cloud
- Ubuntu Pro pricing tracks the underlying compute cost. Ubuntu Pro price varies between 3-4.5% of an average hourly compute cost, depending on the instance type. + Choose between annual fixed or consumption-based pricing, with billing simplified through direct integration with your Azure bill and counting towards your Microsoft Azure Cloud Consumption (MACC) agreement.
The right Ubuntu for you
-Canonical brings the most popular Ubuntu Server distributions to choose from.
+Seamless integration with your Azure
++ Ubuntu Pro offers full integration with core Azure services such as Azure Pricing, Azure Guest Patching, and Update Management Center. +
10-year lifetime
+Up to 12 years lifetime
- Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for 10 years, ensuring security updates are available throughout, with a guaranteed upgrade path. + Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for up to 12 years, ensuring security updates are available throughout, with a guaranteed upgrade path.
Optional 24/7 support
-Additional enterprise-grade support available through private offer for Pro.
+Optional 24/7 support
++ Additional enterprise-grade support is available through a private offer for Ubuntu Pro infrastructure and applications. +
- Ubuntu Pro includes security coverage for the entire collection of software packages shipped with Ubuntu, tracking high and critical CVEs. This makes it ideal for companies that have embraced open source for their new products and need to ensure security for production and mission-critical workloads. -
-- One key reason why developers prefer Ubuntu is that it includes a huge set – in total, over 26,000 packages – of upstream open source known as 'universe'. Universe includes workloads like NGINX, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, but also language ecosystems like Python, Java, Ruby and Javascript/Node.js. With Ubuntu Pro's built-in CVE tracking and patching, CIOs and security officers can be confident they can roll these packages out to production. -
-Building enterprise-grade infrastructure with open source, speed, reliability, and support.
-Achieve more through open source software in a trusted way – with no compromises on security and support.
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Azure optimised kernel and userspace | -- - | -- - | -
Security patches for Ubuntu infrastructure components | -- - | -- - | -
- Security patches for hundreds of open source applications, including Apache Kafka,
- - RabbitMQ, Redis and NodeJS and key language ecosystems including Java, Python, Ruby and Javascript/Node.js - |
- - | - - | -
FIPS 140-2 and Common Criteria EAL2 certified components, with optional CIS hardening profile and DISA STIG | -- | - - | -
Kernel Livepatch for instant security and higher uptimes | -- | - - | -
Maintenance commitment | -5 years | -10 years | -
- Learn more about Ubuntu Pro › -
+
+ Use the pro security-status
command to get a complete overview of your machine's installed packages and their corresponding security coverage.
+
- Open Source means faster development and lower operation costs but how do you deal with open source software provenance, patching and Azure compliance? Find out how Ubuntu Pro images are optimised, built, regularly patched and how you can customise them to simplify your infrastructure operations. -
-- Cloud-init automates the provisioning of an operating system image into a fully running state. Typical tasks handled by cloud-init include networking and storage initialisation and optional package installation and configuration. This means users can build up-to-date images in no time and with minimum maintenance efforts. -
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