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Ubuntu Minimal on Azure & AWS

A stripped Ubuntu image with the smallest sensible package set, for fleets where boot time and attack surface both matter. Built and maintained by WIEWAVE for Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace, on Ubuntu.

Ubuntu Minimal at a glance

Key facts about Ubuntu Minimal
Built & maintained byWIEWAVE
CategoryOperating Systems
Operating systemsUbuntu
MarketplacesAzure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace
Offer typesPublic listing, with private offers on request

Availability by marketplace

Where Ubuntu Minimal is published
MarketplaceStatus
Azure MarketplacePublished
AWS MarketplacePublished
Google Cloud MarketplaceAvailable on request

Need it on another marketplace, or as a private offer for your organisation? cloud@wiewave.com

Operating systems

Ubuntu Minimal is built on one distribution

Each image follows its distribution's own provisioning model, package manager and security tooling — not one build relabelled several times.

  • Ubuntu

    LTS and interim releases, Minimal and Pro variants, built to Canonical's cloud-image conventions.

How it's built

How WIEWAVE builds and maintains this image

The same four steps behind every offer we've published, including the hardening and CIS Benchmark checks every build goes through.

  1. 01

    Scoped

    The distribution, licensing model and target marketplaces are agreed before anything is built.

  2. 02

    Built & hardened as code

    Packer templates, Ansible provisioning and a pinned package set — then hardened, scanned and checked against the CIS Benchmark for its distribution.

  3. 03

    Certified & published

    Taken through each cloud's own certification pipeline before it goes live on the marketplace.

  4. 04

    Maintained

    Rebuilt on the upstream security cadence and re-published, with old versions retired without breaking deployments.

FAQ

Ubuntu Minimal: common questions

If yours isn't here, ask our marketplace team directly.

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Need Ubuntu Minimal customised, or on another cloud?

Tell us the distribution, the marketplace and the commercial model — we'll build, certify and publish it as a public listing or a private offer.