--- title: "Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud\n | Ubuntu" description: Get an Ubuntu image optimized for Google Cloud. Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud offers up to 15 years of security maintenance, certified components, and hardening. url: https://ubuntu.com/gcp/pro?format=md keywords: index, follow --- # Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud For production. For professionals. Ubuntu Pro for Google Cloud is a premium image delivering the most comprehensive security and Google Cloud compliance features. Ubuntu Pro is suitable for small and large-scale Linux enterprise operations offering pay-as-you-go billing on your existing Google Cloud invoice. --- ## Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS Delivers additional layer of security and compliance services and security patches covering a wider range of packages, until 2034. --- [Launch Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS](https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instancesAdd?imageId=4629240575064276470&imageProjectId=ubuntu-os-cloud) --- [Contact us to discuss Ubuntu Pro with support ›](https://ubuntu.com/gcp/contact-us) --- ### Previous releases * [22.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/canonical-public/ubuntu-pro-2204-jammy) Maintained until 2032 * [20.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-focal) Maintained until 2030 * [18.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-bionic) Maintained until 2028 * [16.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-xenial) Maintained until 2026 --- ## Upgrade Ubuntu LTS to Ubuntu Pro Enjoy all the features of Ubuntu Pro without changing your application. --- [Learn how to upgrade](https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/images/premium/ubuntu-pro/upgrade-from-ubuntu) --- ## What’s in Ubuntu Pro? --- * ### CC-EAL2 certified Officially certified components to enable operating environments under compliance regimes like FedRAMP, HIPAA, PCI, and ISO. * ### CIS and DISA STIG For companies looking to leverage industry benchmarks for hardening, Ubuntu Pro makes two leading implementation guides available. * ### Open source security Ubuntu Pro adds security coverage for the most important open source applications like Apache Kafka, NGINX, MongoDB, Redis and PostgreSQL. --- * ### Predictable and optimized Ubuntu Pro is a layer of services on top of Ubuntu LTS, gives access to a vast range of maintained open source components, and comes pre-built with Google Cloud optimizations. * ### Kernel Livepatch Ubuntu kernel updates are regularly issued. With the Livepatch service, kernel patches are delivered immediately, without the need to reboot your VMs. * ### Priced for the cloud Ubuntu Pro pricing tracks the underlying compute cost. The price varies between 3-4.5% of an average hourly compute cost, depending on the instance type. --- * ### The right Ubuntu for you Canonical brings the three most popular Ubuntu Server distributions to choose from. * ### Up to 15-year lifetime Canonical backs Ubuntu Pro for up to 15 years, ensuring security updates are available throughout, with a guaranteed upgrade path. * ### Optional 24/7 support Additional enterprise-grade support available through private offer for Pro. --- [Learn more about Ubuntu Pro](https://ubuntu.com/gcp/contact-us) --- ## Broadest open source security coverage keeps CISOs sleeping at night Ubuntu Pro includes security coverage for the entire collection of software packages shipped with Ubuntu, tracking high and critical CVEs. This makes it ideal for companies that have embraced open source for their new products and need to ensure security for production and mission-critical workloads. One key reason why developers prefer Ubuntu is that it includes a huge set of upstream open source known as ‘universe’. Universe includes workloads like NGINX, MongoDB, Redis, and Kafka, but also language ecosystems like Python, Java, Ruby, and Javascript/Node.js. With Ubuntu Pro's built-in CVE tracking and patching, CIOs and security officers can be confident they can roll these packages out to production. --- ## Choose the right Ubuntu for you | | | Ubuntu | Ubuntu Pro | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Google Cloud-optimized kernel and userspace | | | | | Security patches for Ubuntu infrastructure components | | | | | Security patches for hundreds of open source applications, including Apache Kafka, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, and NodeJS and key language ecosystems including Java, Python, Ruby, and Javascript/Node.js | | | | | Common Criteria EAL2 certified components, with optional CIS hardening profile and DISA STIG | | | | | Kernel Livepatch for instant security and higher uptimes | | | | | Maintenance commitment | | 5 years | Up to 15 years | [Read the Ubuntu Pro datasheet ›](https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/b29ab1bb-Ubuntu.Pro.GCP._Datasheet_07.12.21.1.pdf) --- ## Get Ubuntu Pro on Google Cloud * [24.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/compute/instancesAdd?imageId=4629240575064276470&imageProjectId=ubuntu-os-cloud) * [22.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/canonical-public/ubuntu-pro-2204-jammy) * [20.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-focal) * [18.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-bionic) * [16.04 LTS ›](https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/product/ubuntu-os-pro-cloud/ubuntu-pro-xenial) [Learn more about Ubuntu Pro ›](https://ubuntu.com/pro)