Premium Edition for AlmaLinux OS 9 is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
How to use KUSANAGI 9 for GCP Premium Edition (AlmaLinux OS 9)
AlmaLinux OS 9 (Premium Edition) on GCP is available by selecting “KUSANAGI 9 for GCP Premium Edition (AlmaLinux OS 9)” from the Marketplace search results. Please refer to the official KUSANAGI website for usage instructions.
Using KUSANAGI with GCP
GCP currently offers the following KUSANAGI versions and operating systems to choose from.
Business Edition
- KUSANAGI 8（CentOS 7）
- KUSANAGI 9（CentOS Stream 8）
- KUSANAGI 9（AlmaLinux OS 8）
- KUSANAGI 9（AlmaLinux OS 9）
Premium Edition
- KUSANAGI 8（CentOS 7）
- KUSANAGI 9（CentOS Stream 8）
- KUSANAGI 9（AlmaLinux OS 8）
- KUSANAGI 9（AlmaLinux OS 9）
Free Edition
- KUSANAGI 8（CentOS 7)
- KUSANAGI 9（CentOS Stream 8）
- KUSANAGI 9（CentOS Stream 9）
About KUSANAGI, the ultra-fast CMS execution environment
KUSANAGI is a fast and secure virtual machine image developed and provided by Prime Strategy. KUSANAGI is available in 251 regions in 34 countries, on 28 major domestic and international platforms (as of December 2022), with a cumulative total of over 70,000 units in operation (as of February 2023).
KUSANAGI achieves more than 25,000 concurrent requests per second (HTTP) when using page cache and more than 210 concurrent requests per second (both HTTP and HTTPS) when not using page cache in a typical cloud environment (*1). Compared to the standard LAMP environment (*2), the speedup is approximately 2,330 times faster when page cache is used, and approximately 20 times faster when page cache is not used.
Three editions are offered: the “Free Edition” for personal use, the paid “Business Edition” for business use, and the paid top-of-the-line “Premium Edition” for business use, which includes the WEXAL® Page Speed Technology® web acceleration engine.
KUSANAGI official website：https://kusanagi.tokyo/kusanagi9/
*1 Microsoft Azure Standard D4as_v4instance (2.35Ghz AMD EPYC 7452 processor 4 vCPU, 16GiB), Premium SSD LRS, East Japan Region, KUSANAGI 9.1.0-1, PHP 7.4.27, Nginx 1.21.4, MariaDB 10.5.13, WordPress 5.8.2
*2: Microsoft Azure Standard D4as_v4 instance (2.35Ghz AMD EPYC 7452 processor 4 vCPU, 16GiB), Premium SSD LRS, East Japan Region, CentOS 7.9.2009, PHP 5.6.40, Apache 2.4.6, MariaDB 5.5.68, WordPress 5.8.2
About WEXAL® Page Speed Technology®
WEXAL is an “acceleration engine” for web systems. It improves Core Web Vitals and PageSpeed Insight scores and enhances UX (user experience).
Features
- Strategic AI “David” generates optimization strategies for each web page according to the browser environment. The optimization strategy speeds up the first view and improves UX.
- Compresses and lightens image, JS, and CSS resources for faster display and reduced transfer
- No modification of original resources, programs, or data stored in databases, so you can introduce the system with peace of mind.
