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Introducing Open WebUI on AWS 1.1.0: Run Your Own Open-Source LLMs on GPU
FOSSonCloud's newest AWS Marketplace pattern brings GPU-accelerated open-source LLM inference to your own AWS account. Pre-baked AMI with CUDA 13, vLLM 0.20, Open WebUI, and a curated model dropdown — Qwen3, Qwen3-Coder, GPT-OSS — running on g6e GPU instances.
Bluesky PDS on AWS 2.0.0: A Big Upstream Catch-Up and Modernized Tooling
Our AWS Marketplace Bluesky PDS pattern jumps from PDS 0.4.74 all the way to 0.4.219 — pulling in safer-by-default rate limits and invite codes, a doubled blob upload limit, the goat CLI in the container, and a Node 20.20 base. The pattern itself also gets a major tooling refresh.
Discourse on AWS 1.3.0: Discourse v2026.4.0 and a New Integration Test Suite
Our AWS Marketplace Discourse pattern now ships Discourse v2026.4.0, picking up the April monthly release with OIDC group sync, embedded full-app comments, bulk topic pinning, and dozens of admin tooling improvements. We also added a pytest + Playwright integration test suite to the pattern.
WordPress on AWS 3.0.0: A Major Modernization, Two WordPress Versions, and a Pile of Security Fixes
Our AWS Marketplace WordPress pattern now ships WordPress 6.9.4, jumping two major versions from 6.7.2 and pulling in a dozen security fixes from the 6.9.2 / 6.9.3 / 6.9.4 cycle. We also modernized the deployment tooling and switched to the AWS Marketplace Catalog API.
Zulip on AWS 2.0.0: Major Version Bump to Zulip 12.0 with Security Fixes and a New Test Suite
Our AWS Marketplace Zulip pattern hits its 2.0.0 milestone, upgrading from Zulip 11.6 to Zulip 12.0 — picking up the CVE-2026-40300 message-edit-history fix, end-to-end encrypted mobile push notifications, and a redesigned Recent Conversations view.
Consul Democracy on AWS 2.0.0: Three FOSS Releases, a Full Modernization, and a New Brand
Our AWS Marketplace Consul Democracy pattern jumps from FOSS 2.2.0 to 2.5.0 — pulling in OIDC and SAML auth, AI-powered translations, Rails 7.2, Ruby 3.3, and Ubuntu 24.04.
Jitsi on AWS 4.1.1: Ubuntu 24.04 and a Year of Upstream Catch-Up
Our AWS Marketplace Jitsi pattern now ships Jitsi Meet stable-10888, jumping from stable-9823 across roughly 16 upstream releases. The pattern itself moves to Ubuntu 24.04 and picks up the FOSSonCloud rebrand.
PeerTube on AWS 3.0.0: A Major Jump from 7.0.1 to 8.1.5
Our AWS Marketplace PeerTube pattern now ships PeerTube 8.1.5, jumping a full major version from 7.0.1 — bringing channel collaboration, a redesigned video player, seven JFrog-disclosed CVE fixes, plus a new `pnpm`-based install toolchain and Ubuntu 24.04 base AMI.
Pixelfed on AWS 2.1.0: New FOSS Drop and Modernized Deployment Tooling
Our AWS Marketplace Pixelfed pattern now ships Pixelfed v0.12.7, picking up three upstream releases worth of features — OIDC support, pinned posts, custom filters, AVIF/HEIC/libvips, and WebGL photo filters — plus a refreshed CDK, common constructs, and packer toolchain underneath.
Mastodon on AWS 2.4.0: Eight Rounds of Security Fixes and Modernized Tooling
Our AWS Marketplace Mastodon pattern now ships Mastodon 4.5.9, pulling in every security fix released between 4.5.1 and 4.5.9 — including SSRF protection bypass, unauthorized access checks, and an email verification hole. Plus we refreshed the underlying deployment tooling.