Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for patching the operating system and the maintenance provided by Kurian.
HashiCorp Vault is a secrets management solution that brokers access for both humans and machines, through programmatic access, to systems. Secrets can be stored, dynamically generated, and in the case of encryption, keys can be consumed as a service without the need to expose the underlying key materials. The open source version of the Vault is a production grade secrets management system that could be integrated with your CI/CD pipeline or with any other application that requires highly secured dynamic management of secrets.
Kurian has released preconfigured software applications such as CMS platforms, Jenkins, databases, LAMP stack, Ansible, popular tools in DevOps toolchain, 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
- AMI built with the latest, stable community version of Hashicorp Vault.
- AMI suitable for creating instances to run Vault on a single server or in a cluster.
- AMI is built with OS patches applied and the instances spun up from this AMI is ready for production deployment.
Details
Typical total price
$0.098/hour
Pricing
Free trial
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
|---|---|---|---|
t2.nano | $0.005 | $0.006 | $0.011 |
t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.005 | $0.012 | $0.017 |
t2.small | $0.005 | $0.023 | $0.028 |
t2.medium | $0.005 | $0.046 | $0.051 |
t2.large Recommended | $0.005 | $0.093 | $0.098 |
t2.xlarge | $0.005 | $0.186 | $0.191 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.005 | $0.371 | $0.376 |
t3.nano | $0.005 | $0.005 | $0.01 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.005 | $0.01 | $0.015 |
t3.small | $0.005 | $0.021 | $0.026 |
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
AMI with version 1.12.2 and OS patches to address security issues, released on January 28th, 2023.
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Spin up the EC2 node with the ports 22 and 8200 open. The Vault service runs on port 8200.
- Follow AMI documentation to unseal Vault and configure it for your specific requirements.
- Access the web UI on port 8200 using IP address or domain name assigned to the instance. Example https://IP-ADDRESS:8200
- If needed SSH into the new instance as user ec2-user.
- Customers can use this AMI to run Vault secrets management service that might store sensitive information. It is up to the customers of this AMI to encrypt data in rest and transit and, for any such requirements, the customers may have to customize this AMI to meet specific needs .
- 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 later as part of the customization or usage. The AMI does not have any encrypted data that is needed to stand up the service.
Resources
Support
Vendor support
Contact us via email at contact@kurianinc.us and please allow 24 hours to respond. For additional contact info visit
AWS infrastructure support
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