How-to guides

These guides provide instructions for performing different operations related to our products on AWS. They are categorized based on whether EC2 or EKS is being used. Finally, there are a couple of generic how-to guides as well.

Ubuntu on EC2

Perform tasks such as finding the right image to use and launching different types of instances including desktops, confidential computing instances, local VMs and hardened instances:

Create a customized AMI and CloudFormation templates:

Perform custom configurations like installing custom kernels and drivers:

Perform upgrades and configure automated maintenance tasks:

Use Canonical specific solutions:

Ubuntu on EKS

If you want to use Ubuntu, enable GPUs or install Kubeflow on Amazon’s EKS service, you can refer to these instructions.

Deployment options for using Ubuntu on EKS (using Ubuntu AMIs or Pro tokens):

Deployment options for node groups:

Custom EKS deployments:

Using security features

AWS provides multiple features for additional security, many of which are supported through our Ubuntu images. This guide walks you through the steps needed to use these security features.