Canonical Announces Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Canonical and AWS introduced immediately the general public availability of on-demand Amazon EC2 Hibernation assist for the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS working system on AWS (Amazon Web Services).

As one can think about, the Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation performance lets customers begin up Amazon EC2 cases, configure them to their wants, hibernate them, after which launch them once more every time they need with all of the working apps within the final state earlier than they have been put to sleep.

With Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation there isn’t any have to rebuild the reminiscence footprint of your apps, and it additionally enables you to keep a fleet of pre-warmed Amazon EC2 cases that will improve your productiveness with out the necessity to modify any of your current purposes within the cloud.

If you are utilizing Ubuntu on AWS (Amazon Web Services), now you can good thing about Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). To allow it, you have to use the mandatory software program updates within the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS AWS Machine Images (AMIs) with a serial of 20190722.1 or later.

Coming quickly to different Ubuntu releases

Before utilizing Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation, customers ought to remember of a identified points associated to KASLR (Kernel Address Space Layout Randomisation), which can forestall KASLR-enabled machines to not resume fully after hibernation. As a workaround, Canonical recommends customers disabling KASLR.

According to Canonical, Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation will quickly be accessible for different supported Ubuntu releases on AWS (Amazon Web Services), similar to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) or newer releases like Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo). However, the corporate didn’t stated when these Ubuntu releases can be up to date.

To be taught extra about Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation, do not hesitate to go to this assist article, and for those who need assistance enabling Amazon EC2 On-Demand Hibernation for your Amazon EC2 cases working Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, you need to take a look at the official Amazon EC2 Hibernation consumer information.