Ubuntu Pro for Azure

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.

Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS

Delivers additional layer of security and compliance services and security patches covering a wider range of packages, until 2034.

Launch Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS

Previous releases

22.04 LTS ›

Maintained until 2032
20.04 LTS ›

Maintained until 2030
18.04 LTS ›

Maintained until 2028
16.04 LTS ›

Maintained until 2026

Upgrade Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu Pro

Upgrade to Ubuntu Pro, with no disruption to your services or VM redeployment.

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What's in Ubuntu Pro?

FIPS & CC-EAL2 certified

Officially certified components to enable operating environments under compliance regimes like FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI and ISO.

CIS and DISA STIG

For companies looking to leverage industry benchmarks for hardening, Ubuntu Pro makes two leading implementation guides available.

Open source security

Ubuntu Pro adds security coverage for the most important open source applications like Apache Kafka, NGINX, Redis and PostgreSQL.

Predictable and optimised

Ubuntu Pro is based on Ubuntu and leverages both the breadth of open source included and the Azure optimisations built in.

Kernel Livepatch

Ubuntu kernel updates are regularly issued. With our Livepatch service, kernel patches are delivered immediately, without the need to reboot your VMs.

Priced for 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.

The right Ubuntu for you

Canonical brings the most popular Ubuntu Server distributions to choose from.

10-year lifetime

Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for 10 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.

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Broadest open source security coverage keeps CISOs sleeping at night

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.

Scale, open source security and, Azure compliance
across your Ubuntu instances

Scaling with Ubuntu Pro

Building enterprise-grade infrastructure with open source, speed, reliability, and support.

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Operating open source securely

Achieve more through open source software in a trusted way – with no compromises on security and support.

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Ubuntu Pro feature coverage

	Ubuntu	Ubuntu Pro
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

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Getting the best of Ubuntu Pro for Azure

Technical introduction to Ubuntu Pro

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.