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personal Apps

Overview

This page is the entry point for the SecureAnyCloud Hardened Actual Budget & Self-Hosted Personal Apps AMIs listing on the AWS Marketplace. The listing is a single product that offers several products and releases as separate software versions. Subscribe once, choose the version that you want from the Software version list at launch, and open its guide below for the full setup and connection walk-through.

What SecureAnyCloud adds to every version:

  • SecureAnyCloud builds every image on a fully patched base, with the latest security updates applied at build time.
  • Services ship secure by default. The first boot of each instance generates unique administrator passwords, database credentials and application secrets, so no default login exists and no two instances share a secret.

Pricing is metered hourly per EC2 instance type and is the same for every version in this listing. The recommended instance type is m5.large.

How to pick a version

  • Open the listing on the AWS Marketplace and choose View purchase options, then Subscribe. One subscription covers every product and release in the listing, and the free trial starts with it.
  • When the subscription is active, choose Launch your software.
  • Choose One-click launch from AWS Marketplace, or Launch from EC2 Console for full control. In Version, choose the product and release that you want. Each version is a separate software version, named <product> <release> on <operating system> - <date>, for example AdventureLog 0.13.1 on Ubuntu 24.04 - YYYY-MM-DD. The date is when that version was added to the listing.
  • Choose your Region, an instance type (m5.large is recommended), your EC2 key pair, and a security group that opens the ports in the product's guide. Then choose Launch.
  • After launch, open the product's guide below for first sign-in.

You can run several products from the same subscription. Launch one instance per product, each from its own software version.

The listing includes these versions, newest release first:

  • AdventureLog: 0.13.1 on Ubuntu 24.04
  • Baby Buddy: 2.11.0 on Ubuntu 24.04
  • BentoPDF: 2.8.10 on Ubuntu 24.04
  • changedetection.io: 0.60.10 on Ubuntu 24.04

Security model

Every version in this listing follows the same model:

  • No default login. The first boot of each instance generates administrator passwords, database passwords and application secrets, and writes them to a root-only file. No two instances share a secret.
  • Only the documented ports. Each guide lists the ports that the product needs. Open only those ports in your security group.
  • Backing services on localhost. Databases and caches listen on 127.0.0.1 only. Never open database ports (3306, 5432, 6379) to the internet.
  • Patched base. The operating system is fully patched when the image is built.
  • HTTPS on first boot for AdventureLog 0.13.1 on Ubuntu 24.04, Baby Buddy 2.11.0 on Ubuntu 24.04, BentoPDF 2.8.10 on Ubuntu 24.04 and changedetection.io 0.60.10 on Ubuntu 24.04. These versions serve HTTPS with a per-instance certificate from first boot. The other versions serve HTTP, and their guide shows how to add a certificate on the instance or behind an Application Load Balancer with AWS Certificate Manager.

Choose your product

Each product has its own software version and a guide:

  • AdventureLog: software version AdventureLog 0.13.1 on Ubuntu 24.04, running Ubuntu 24.04. Open the AdventureLog guide.
  • Baby Buddy: software version Baby Buddy 2.11.0 on Ubuntu 24.04, running Ubuntu 24.04. Open the Baby Buddy guide.
  • BentoPDF: software version BentoPDF 2.8.10 on Ubuntu 24.04, running Ubuntu 24.04. Open the BentoPDF guide.
  • changedetection.io: software version changedetection.io 0.60.10 on Ubuntu 24.04, running Ubuntu 24.04. Open the changedetection.io guide.

How to tell which version you launched

The EC2 console shows the version that you chose on the instance's launch record, in the AMI name and description, and your AWS Marketplace subscription shows it too. On the instance, the login message after SSH names the product and its credentials file. Open the matching guide above for the rest of the walk-through.

Support

SecureAnyCloud provides 24/7 support for every version in this listing through the AWS Marketplace support channel. Raise a ticket through the Marketplace console, or email sales@secureanycloud.com.

All product and company names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Their use does not imply any affiliation with or endorsement by them.

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