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Important Update: Transitioning Bitnami Offerings on AWS

By<br>Beltran Rueda Borrego

posted<br>4 days ago

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This blog summarizes some important changes to Bitnami content on Amazon Web Services. Effective June 10, 2026, Bitnami-packaged containers, Helm charts, and Amazon Machine Images (AMIs) will no longer be available through the AWS Marketplace, AWS Lightsail Blueprints, and Elastic Container Registry (ECR).

Transition Timeline

To ensure our community has time to prepare, we have established the following wind-down schedule:

May 19th, 2026: Announcements from both AWS and Broadcom

June 1, 2026: A 24-hour brownout will occur for the top 20 ECR container repositories to help users identify dependencies and raise awareness for those who missed the announcements.

June 10, 2026: Final removal of all Bitnami content, including AMIs, Helm charts, and ECR containers.

Customers using Bitnami images from the ECR container registry must take action to avoid impact on running workloads. The AWS ECR team has published a helpful guide outlining the steps you can take to avoid disruption to your workloads.

Note: While existing Amazon EC2 and Lightsail instances will continue to run, they will stop receiving updates after May 20th, 2026

Elevate Your Security: The Move to Commercial Bitnami

While the free offerings on AWS are being retired, this transition presents an ideal opportunity to upgrade to an enterprise subscription of Bitnami Secure Images. Enterprise-ready Bitnami Secure Images is designed for production workloads, offering a hardened supply chain that significantly exceeds the standards of public container images. The hardened Bitnami images are drop-in replacements for the free Bitnami images formerly offered through AWS. You can instantly upgrade your open source security posture without having to change Helm charts or how you deploy your containers.

Frontier Models and Security: Time is of the essence

There is another reason the timing is ideal to change how you consume open source containers. Attack vectors on public build infrastructure are an increasing risk, as evidenced by the Trivy incident. An isolated, clean room build from source with Bitnami Secure Images protected Bitnami Secure Image customers from that risk. Furthermore, in a post-AI world, where advanced Frontier models shrink the acceptable response time to CVEs, relying on public repositories carries new risks. Purnima Padmanabhan, General Manager of the Tanzu Division of Broadcom recently outlined the landscape of this world and offers recommendations on how to strengthen your security posture in the face of new AI threats. Read the blog: How to Prepare for the World of AI-Driven Exploits

Key Benefits of Upgrading to Bitnami Secure Images

The enterprise version of Bitnami provides substantial advantages over the former AWS offerings, focusing on "triage-to-zero" security and regulatory compliance.

Feature

Bitnami Secure Images

Free AWS Offering (Retired)

Vulnerability Count

Near-zero CVEs using Photon OS base images.

May contain 100+ CVEs.

CVE Triage

VEX statements for rapid exploitability assessment.

Not available

Compliance Docs

Comprehensive SBOMs (SPDX/CycloneDX), VEX, and VEX/KEV scores.

Not available

Regulated Industry Support

Full FIPS and STIG compliance for hardened images.

Not available

Delivery

Private OCI registry with air-gap support tools.

Public Registry

Ensuring Business Continuity

For organizations currently utilizing Bitnami Helm charts, Bitnami Secure Images is the best way to receive ongoing 1st-party updates and support. By switching to hardened Bitnami images available with a Bitnami Secure Images subscription, your team can reduce the manual effort spent on vulnerability auditing and focus on building your platform with trusted, enterprise-grade artifacts. Contact the team today

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