Fedora Linux 44 Arm64

Azure Operating Systems

Fedora Linux 44 for 64 bit Arm, the community distribution sponsored by Red Hat where enterprise Linux technology appears first, for Azure Cobalt 100 Arm virtual machines.

Base

Hardened build

minimal ports, security patches applied at build time

Access

Unique credentials

generated on first boot, readable only by root

Verified

Boots working

services pass a health gate before release

Support

24/7, 365 days

by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Fedora Linux 44 is the current stable release of the community distribution produced by the Fedora Project and sponsored by Red Hat, and it is the upstream from which Red Hat Enterprise Linux is derived. This is the 64 bit Arm (AArch64) Cloud Edition build with the standard 4k page size kernel, for the Arm based virtual machine sizes powered by the Azure Cobalt 100 processor, which pair strong per core performance with lower cost than comparable x86 sizes.

It suits teams who want current kernels, compilers and runtimes on Arm: development and test environments, build and test agents for software that ships aarch64 binaries, container and cloud native workloads on a recent kernel, and validating software against packages heading for enterprise Linux. Fedora releases are supported for about 13 months, so this is the right base when currency matters more than a long support window, and an enterprise distribution is the right base when it does not. Fedora Linux 44 was released on 28 April 2026 and reaches end of life on 2 June 2027; the listing and the paired guide state that date plainly and carry the in place upgrade procedure. The image is built from the official Fedora disk image published by the Fedora Project, with its checksum verified against the published upstream value and that value's GPG signature checked, so it carries no Marketplace purchase plan and there are no vendor terms to accept beyond cloudimg's own.

Why the cloudimg image

The cloudimg image is a Fedora Linux 44 Arm64 base brought fully up to date at build time and again immediately before capture, booted on its newest kernel with superseded kernels removed, with SELinux left in Enforcing mode and the root password locked. No credential is baked in: access is by the SSH key you choose at launch, root cannot log in over SSH, the build account is removed before capture, and SSH host keys and the machine id are regenerated per machine, so no two instances share a secret or an identity. Automatic security updates, which the stock Fedora Cloud Base image does not ship at all, are installed and armed as a daily timer that never reboots on its own. SSH on port 22 is the only network listener, checked by comparing the whole listening port set rather than a list of known ports: the stock image also exposes LLMNR on port 5355 over both TCP and UDP, and that is closed here. Fedora's zram swap device is removed, because an Azure Marketplace image must ship with no swap on the operating system disk, and the guide shows the one command that puts it back. The Fedora Project publishes no official Fedora image to the Azure Marketplace and every other Fedora offer there comes from a third party repackager, so this image is built from the Fedora Project's own artifact instead.

Common uses

Development and test environments needing current toolchains on Arm
Build and test agents for software shipping aarch64 binaries
Container and cloud native workloads on a recent kernel

Overview

Why the cloudimg image

Common uses

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