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    Apache APISIX - Hardened Cloud-Native API Gateway

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    This product has charges associated with it for hardening, security configuration, and support. Apache APISIX is a cloud-native API gateway built on OpenResty (NGINX + LuaJIT), with dynamic routing, authentication, rate limiting, and an embedded management Dashboard. Unlike bare APISIX AMIs that ship the historical default Admin API key, expose the Admin API on every interface, and require a separate etcd cluster, this Lynxroute build is ready out of the box: a single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to localhost, the Admin API and Dashboard locked to localhost and reachable only through a TLS perimeter, the default Admin API key rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, UFW firewall pre-configured, and a CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base. Apache-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.

    Overview

    This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and support.

    WHAT IS APACHE APISIX

    Apache APISIX is a cloud-native, high-performance API gateway built on OpenResty (NGINX + LuaJIT). It routes, secures, and observes API traffic through a large catalogue of plugins: key-auth, JWT, basic-auth, OpenID Connect, rate limiting, IP restriction, CORS, request and response transformation, Prometheus metrics, and OpenTelemetry. Routes, upstreams, consumers, and plugins are configured dynamically through the Admin API or the embedded web Dashboard, with no restart required. APISIX stores its configuration in etcd; this image bundles a single-node etcd locally, so there is no external etcd cluster to deploy, secure, or operate. Apache-2.0 license, no per-API fees, no vendor lock-in. The separate API7 Enterprise product is not part of this build - this is the full open-source gateway.

    WHAT THIS AMI ADDS

    Security hardening:

    • Single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to 127.0.0.1 only - no external etcd cluster to deploy or expose
    • Admin API and embedded Dashboard bound to 127.0.0.1 only; remote management via an Nginx TLS perimeter on port 443
    • The historical default Admin API key is rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, saved to /root/apisix-credentials.txt
    • Data plane on ports 9080 (HTTP) and 9443 (HTTPS)
    • No anonymous telemetry; bundled OpenResty links OpenSSL 3.x
    • UFW firewall - ports 22, 443, 9080, 9443
    • fail2ban, AppArmor
    • CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release

    OS hardening (CIS Level 1):

    • CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
    • auditd, SSH hardening, Kernel hardening, IMDSv2 enforced

    Compliance artifacts:

    • SBOM - CycloneDX 1.6 at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
    • CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
    • CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md

    Highlights

    • Apache APISIX security baked in: the historical default Admin API key rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot, the Admin API and embedded Dashboard locked to localhost behind a TLS perimeter, and a single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to localhost - unlike bare APISIX AMIs that ship the well-known default key and expose the Admin API on every interface.
    • CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: auditd, fail2ban, AppArmor, SSH key-only, IMDSv2 enforced. CVE-scanned before every release. SBOM (CycloneDX) and CIS Conformance Report included.
    • Cloud-native API gateway on OpenResty: dynamic routing, key-auth, JWT, OpenID Connect, rate limiting, Prometheus and OpenTelemetry - managed through the Admin API or the embedded web Dashboard, with bundled local etcd. Apache-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.

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    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Apache APISIX - Hardened Cloud-Native API Gateway

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    64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

    An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.

    Version release notes

    Apache APISIX 3.16.0 - Initial release (June 2026)

    • Apache APISIX 3.16.0 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
    • CIS Level 1 hardening applied (ansible-lockdown/UBUNTU24-CIS)
    • CVE-scanned before every release
    • Single-node etcd datastore bundled and bound to 127.0.0.1 only
    • Admin API and embedded Dashboard bound to 127.0.0.1; remote management via an Nginx TLS perimeter on port 443
    • Historical default Admin API key rotated to a unique per-instance key at first boot
    • Data plane on ports 9080 (HTTP) and 9443 (HTTPS)
    • No anonymous telemetry; bundled OpenResty links OpenSSL 3.x
    • UFW firewall pre-configured (ports 22, 443, 9080, 9443)
    • fail2ban, auditd, AppArmor pre-configured
    • SBOM (CycloneDX 1.6) at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
    • CIS Conformance Report (OpenSCAP) at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
    • IMDSv2 enforced

    Additional details

    Usage instructions

    1. Launch instance (t3.medium recommended; t3.small minimum)
    2. Open Security Group - allow TCP 9080, 9443 and 443 from your API clients, and TCP 22 from your IP
    3. SSH: ssh -i key.pem ubuntu@<PUBLIC_IP>
    4. Read credentials: sudo cat /root/apisix-credentials.txt
    5. Open the embedded Dashboard over TLS and paste the Admin API key from the credentials file: https://<PUBLIC_IP>/ui/ (accept the self-signed certificate on first visit)
    6. Or manage APISIX through the Admin API over the TLS perimeter (key sent as an HTTP header): curl -k https://<PUBLIC_IP>/apisix/admin/routes -H "X-API-KEY: your-admin-key"
    7. Create a route to a backend, then send traffic through the data plane: curl -k https://<PUBLIC_IP>/apisix/admin/routes/1 -H "X-API-KEY: your-admin-key" -X PUT -d '{"uri":"/get","upstream":{"type":"roundrobin","nodes":{"httpbin.org:80":1}}}' curl http://<PUBLIC_IP>:9080/get (HTTP data plane)

    The Admin API key is generated at first boot (the historical default key is rotated) and saved to /root/apisix-credentials.txt. Configuration is stored in a bundled single-node etcd on 127.0.0.1:2379 - there is no external etcd cluster to operate. The raw Admin API and Dashboard stay bound to 127.0.0.1; the only remote management path is the TLS perimeter on port 443. To serve HTTPS on the 9443 data plane, add an SSL certificate for your domain through the Dashboard (APISIX terminates TLS per-SNI). Replace the self-signed Dashboard TLS certificate with a CA-signed certificate for production use.

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    For Apache APISIX documentation: https://apisix.apache.org/docs/apisix/getting-started/  For Apache APISIX upstream issues:

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