Installation on AWS (Marketplace AMI)

ArcadeDB publishes an official Amazon Machine Image (AMI) on AWS Marketplace, sold by ArcadeDB. It installs the open source (Apache 2.0) ArcadeDB server on Amazon EC2 with nothing left to set up:

  • CIS-hardened Ubuntu 22.04 LTS with OpenJDK 25

  • ArcadeDB installed as the arcadedb systemd service, started on boot

  • A root password generated on each instance’s first boot, with no default credentials

  • Built for x86_64 and AWS Graviton (arm64) instances

There are two listings, one per CPU architecture:

Architecture Listing

x86_64 (t3, m6i/m7i, c6i/c7i, r6i/r7i)

ArcadeDB Community Edition (x86_64)

arm64 (t4g, m6g/m7g, c6g/c7g, r6g/r7g)

ArcadeDB Community Edition (arm64)

The AMI carries an hourly software fee, set by instance size, on top of the EC2, EBS and data transfer charges. New subscribers get a 7-day free trial of the software fee. The current rates are on each listing’s pricing tab. The fee appears on your AWS bill, so there is no separate contract or vendor to onboard. If you prefer to install ArcadeDB yourself on EC2 at no software cost, use the Docker image or the binary distribution; the database engine is the same.

The Marketplace image includes community support through GitHub issues and this documentation, with no SLA. For a support contract, see ArcadeDB support plans.

Launch an instance

  1. Open the listing for your architecture and choose View purchase options, then Subscribe.

  2. Choose Launch your software, pick a region and an instance type. m6i.large (or m7g.large on Graviton) is a good starting point.

  3. Select your EC2 key pair.

  4. In the security group, allow inbound TCP 22 (SSH) and 2480 (HTTP API and Studio) only from your own IP range. Do not open these ports to 0.0.0.0/0. If you enable more protocols later, such as PostgreSQL (5432) or Bolt (7687), open their ports the same way.

  5. Launch the instance and wait for it to pass its status checks.

Read the root password

Every instance generates its own root password on first boot. SSH in as the ubuntu user and read it:

ssh -i my-key.pem ubuntu@<instance-public-ip>
cat ~/arcadedb-root-password.txt

Store the password in your secrets manager, then delete the file from the instance.

Connect

Open Studio at http://<instance-public-ip>:2480 and log in as root. To keep port 2480 closed to the internet altogether, reach it through an SSH tunnel instead and open http://localhost:2480:

ssh -i my-key.pem -L 2480:localhost:2480 ubuntu@<instance-public-ip>

Check the server from the command line:

curl -s -u root:<password> http://<instance-public-ip>:2480/api/v1/server?mode=basic

Applications connect over the HTTP API on port 2480 with any of the drivers. The plain HTTP port is meant for private networks: for traffic that crosses the internet, put an Application Load Balancer with a TLS certificate in front of the instance, or connect over a VPN or SSH tunnel.

Operate the server

Task How

Service status

sudo systemctl status arcadedb

Restart

sudo systemctl restart arcadedb

Database files

/var/lib/arcadedb/databases

Keep the databases on the instance’s EBS volume and back them up with ArcadeDB backups or EBS snapshots. The software fee stops while the instance is stopped; EBS storage is still billed.

Upgrade

A new ArcadeDB release is published as a new version of the Marketplace listing. To move an existing instance to it, take a backup, launch a new instance from the new version, and restore the backup there, following the upgrade checklist of the release.