--- title: Blog posts written by Udi Nachmany description: Canonical makes open source secure, reliable and easy to use, providing support for Ubuntu and a portfolio of enterprise-grade technologies. Founded in 2004, Canonical operates globally with team members in over 80 countries. url: https://canonical.com/blog/author/ehud-nachmany --- # Udi Nachmany 11 posts #### [Ubuntu in NYC: Kubernetes in minutes and enterprise support on AWS](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-in-nyc-kubernetes-in-minutes-and-enterprise-support-on-aws) On August 14th, at the Javits Convention Center in midtown Manhattan, Canonical will be participating in the AWS Summit. Ubuntu has long been popular with users of AWS due to its stability, regular cadence of releases, and scale-out-friendly usage model. Canonical optimizes, builds, and regularly publishes the latest Ubuntu images to the --- Cloud and server #### [Certified Ubuntu Cloud Guest – The best of Ubuntu on the best clouds](https://canonical.com/blog/certified-ubuntu-cloud-guest-the-best-of-ubuntu-on-the-best-clouds) Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. It is the number one guest operating system on AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform. In fact there are more Ubuntu images running in the public cloud than all other operating systems combined. Ubuntu is a free operating system which means anyone can download an image, whenever --- Cloud and server #### [Ubuntu on AWS gets serious performance boost with AWS-tuned kernel](https://canonical.com/blog/ubuntu-on-aws-gets-serious-performance-boost-with-aws-tuned-kernel) Canonical and Amazon Web Services have been working closely together to create the best experience of the world’s most popular cloud OS, on the world’s most popular public cloud. Official Ubuntu guest images have been available on AWS for years, and underlie the majority of workloads on the service—whether you use the EC2 Quickstart, Mark --- Cloud and server #### [Canonical and AWS partner to deliver world-class support in the cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/canonical-and-aws-partner-to-deliver-world-class-support-in-the-cloud) In today’s software world, support is many times an afterthought or an expensive contract used only to keep-up with the latest patches, updates, and versions. Hidden costs to upgrade software, including downtime, scheduling, and planning are also factors that need to be considered. Canonical does not believe the traditional norms of suppo --- Cloud and server #### [Open Telekom Cloud joins Certified Public Cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/open-telekom-cloud-joins-certified-public-cloud) Official Ubuntu images for public cloud VMs, with European data sovereignty through T-Systems’ Open Telekom Cloud Data sovereignty is one of the hot topics in cloud computing—but especially over the past year as new EU regulations have come into play. At the same time, US-based public cloud providers, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, IBM and --- Canonical announcements #### [5 reasons you should only use certified images on the public cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/5-reasons-you-should-only-use-certified-images-on-the-public-cloud) Ubuntu has a long history in the cloud. Not only is it the world’s number one platform for deployments of OpenStack (as we’ve covered here), it also runs more public cloud workloads than all other platforms combined. Fast, secure, and proven in the most demanding production environments, it is extremely popular with the likes of --- Cloud and server #### [Interoute accelerates enterprises’ move to the cloud – and to Ubuntu](https://canonical.com/blog/interoute-accelerates-enterprises-move-to-the-cloud-and-to-ubuntu) A new entrant to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Global IaaS in 2015 was the UK-based Interoute with its Virtual Data Centre (VDC). Not your typical cloud giant, Interoute VDC is the cloud services platform developed by Interoute Communications, the owner-operator of Europe’s largest network. Interoute’s network offering spans the globe, enc --- Cloud and server #### [Canadian OpenStack Cloud VEXXHOST Joins Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud](https://canonical.com/blog/canadian-openstack-cloud-vexxhost-joins-ubuntu-certified-public-cloud) As we’ve mentioned before, Ubuntu is the world’s most popular operating system for OpenStack. OpenStack is, in fact, built on Ubuntu, and its cycles of development are based on Ubuntu’s release schedules. In the public cloud, Ubuntu as a guest OS has also proven to be the developers’ choice, with roughly two-thirds share of VMs on --- Cloud and server #### [Juju Support for Google Cloud Platform](https://canonical.com/blog/juju-support-for-google-cloud-platform) As you may have noticed in our release notes, the recent release of a stable 1.23.2 Juju core (and its 1.23.3 follow-on) is packed with goodies such as support for systemd (and Vivid), improved proxy support for restrictive networks, new charm actions, as well as a first run at Juju service leader elections – and --- Cloud and server #### [Using Snappy Ubuntu Core on Certified Public Clouds](https://canonical.com/blog/using-snappy-ubuntu-core-on-certified-public-clouds) In December we announced Snappy Ubuntu Core for the public cloud, and its availability in beta on Microsoft Windows Azure, Amazon Web Services and Google Compute Engine, as well as Vagrant. Snappy is the smallest, leanest Ubuntu ever, perfect for ultra-dense computing in cloud container farms, Docker app deployments or PaaS environments. --- Cloud and server #### [Rapid Ubuntu image deployment – getting up and running in record time](https://canonical.com/blog/rapid-ubuntu-image-deployment-getting-up-and-running-in-record-time) The Ubuntu Certified Public Cloud (CPC) programme is about providing the best possible user and developer experience on Ubuntu through our public cloud partners.  Canonical continually maintains, tests and updates the Ubuntu images that are quickly made available in locally maintained mirror repositories. This mechanism is particularly ha --- Cloud and server