PhotoPrism, the AI-powered open source self-hosted photo management app, preinstalled for AWS. Browse, organise and search your photos with automatic tagging and face recognition, run as a container on Ubuntu 24.04 behind an nginx reverse proxy, with login required and a per instance admin password generated on first boot. Backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
## PhotoPrism by cloudimg
PhotoPrism is the popular AI-powered, open source, self-hosted application for browsing, organising and sharing your photo and video collection. It uses on-device machine learning to automatically tag your pictures by their content and location, recognise faces, and group similar shots, so you can find any photo in an instant with powerful search. It handles RAW files, live photos and videos, and presents everything in a fast, modern web interface with maps, calendars and albums. This Amazon Machine Image delivers PhotoPrism fully installed and configured as a system service, so a private photo library is running within minutes of launch. The release available is PhotoPrism 260601 (June 2026).
## Application Stack
PhotoPrism is delivered as the official upstream container image, run by a systemd service as an unprivileged account on the loopback address, and fronted by an nginx reverse proxy on port 80 with the upgrade headers and raised upload limit large photos and videos need. The image bundles the TensorFlow model, ffmpeg, libheif and the RAW converters for automatic tagging, face recognition and format conversion, and runs entirely on the CPU with no GPU required.
## Secure First Boot
This image generates a fresh administrator password uniquely for every instance on its first boot, before the application starts, writes it to a root only file and requires login. No shared or default credentials ship in the image, and the photo index ships empty.
## Ready To Use
Sign in on port 80 and add your photos by uploading them through the web interface or copying them into the originals folder and starting an index. PhotoPrism automatically extracts metadata, generates thumbnails, tags the content with machine learning and recognises faces. Your originals, the index database, thumbnail cache and sidecar files live on a dedicated, independently resizable storage volume kept separate from the operating system disk. SQLite is the default index; teams with very large libraries can switch to MariaDB.
## cloudimg Support
cloudimg provides 24/7 technical support for this image, covering PhotoPrism deployment, indexing and import configuration, face recognition, backups, switching to MariaDB, TLS termination and scaling.