Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for patching the operating system and the maintenance provided by Kurian.
Postfix is a free and open-source mail transfer agent (MTA) that routes and delivers electronic mail. As an SMTP server, Postfix implements a first layer of defense against spam bots and malware. It replaces the typical uses of sendmail. In a public cloud environment, the usual requirement is to have a MTA for the applications to send out emails using the corporate email infrastructure. A Postfix server can be configured to do that. This AMI has the latest, stable build of Postfix Mail Server installed on the target operating system with latest patches applied. 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 benchmark are also available. The Kurian AMIs are built following official installation steps so you do not need to learn any custom procedures if additional configurations need to be done.
Highlights
- Latest, stable version of Postfix mail server that can replace sendmail.
- First layer of defense against spam bots and malware.
- Ideal tool to configure MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) in a public cloud environment integrating with corporate email servers for outbound mails from applications.
Details
Typical total price
$0.096/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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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 | $0.05 | $0.012 | $0.062 |
t2.small | $0.05 | $0.023 | $0.073 |
t2.medium Recommended | $0.05 | $0.046 | $0.096 |
t2.large | $0.05 | $0.093 | $0.143 |
t2.xlarge | $0.05 | $0.186 | $0.236 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.05 | $0.371 | $0.421 |
t3.nano | $0.00 | $0.005 | $0.005 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.05 | $0.01 | $0.06 |
t3.small | $0.05 | $0.021 | $0.071 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
|---|---|
EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
Free evaluation of the AMI for 2 weeks is available for the paid versions. The charges when applicable are usage based and the service can be discontinued anytime.
Legal
Vendor terms and conditions
Content disclaimer
Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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.
Version release notes
Postfix version 3.7.4 with OS patches and security fixes released on February 16th, 2023.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Spin up new instances using one-click from AWS console or aws cli or autoscaling options as your infrastructure provisioning process requires.
- SSH into the new instance as user ec2-user to perform additional configurations.
- When an EC2 node is spun up from this AMI, the Postfix service would be up and running.
- Additional configuration is needed to use it for your specific requirements.
- Details of managing the Postfix service is available in the AMI documentation. Check the section Configuration.
- Customers can use this AMI to run an SMTP server. It is up to the application developers where and how to store any sensitive information and to encrypt data in rest and transit and, for any such requirements, the customers may have to customize this AMI to meet the needs as determined by the working of the applications.
- The AMI does not store any passwords or keys and it is up to the customers to rotate the secrets if that would be added as part of the customization. The AMI does not have any encrypted data that is needed for any build process.
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Contact us via email at contact@kurianinc.us and please allow 24 hours to respond. For additional contact info visit http://www.kurianinc.us/contact/ Also, use the issues link to report issues and request changes to the future versions of AMI.
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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