Rebootless patching for Amazon Linux - TuxCare

Minimize Your Risk While Maintaining
100% Uptime of Your Systems

Eliminate Maintenance Windows

Leave the chaos of coordinating patching-related maintenance windows behind and regain control over your schedule

Streamline Security Compliance

Ensure continuous compliance with tightening regulatory requirements and various cybersecurity standards

Minimize Vulnerability Risk

Apply kernel security updates as soon as they become available and win the race against vulnerability exploits

Cut Operational Costs

Achieve major cost savings by eliminating downtime and removing the hassle of managing system reboots

Working with more distributions than Amazon Linux?

KernelCare Enterprise Patches All Popular Enterprise Linux Distros without Reboots, Including

Read the KernelCare Documentation Check Your Kernel and OS Compatibility

The TuxCare Rebootless Live Patching Process

As soon as a new vulnerability affecting a Linux kernel is announced, the TuxCare
team immediately gets to work on a rebootless patch.

KernelCare Enterprise then deploys each patch in less than a nanosecond:

1

We Create the Patch

We create code that patches insecure kernel code with a secure but functionally equivalent replacement.

2

We Prepare the Patch for
Deployment

We compile every patch that impacts the affected kernel and deploy it to our distribution servers.

3

You Receive the Patch

A KernelCare process running on your server checks our distribution servers every 4 hours. If a new patch is available, it can then be downloaded and applied to your running kernel.

4

KernelCare Applies

the Patch

The KCE kernel module – in a matter of nanoseconds – loads the updated binary into the secure kernel space and redirects all functions to the updated code – and the kernel resumes.

Because this happens in nanoseconds, no processes are
interrupted and no failover condition is ever triggered

Experience TuxCare’s rebootless Amazon Linux patching technology with zero commitment.

Simply Put Your Patching on Autopilot or
Opt for All-Encompassing Live Patch Management

KernelCare Enterprise
For Linux infrastructures demanding heightened
security measures and adherence to internal
and external compliance requirements
KernelCare SimplePatch For tech enthusiasts and organizations with smaller infrastructures seeking seamless security and uptime for their Linux systems
Rebootless Kernel Patching 
Supported System1 Count Unlimited Up to 50 systems
Rebootless Patching for Shared Libraries Add-on (LibCare) –
Rebootless Patching for KVM/QEMU Add-on (QEMUCare) –
Customizable Patch Rollout Policies –
Centralized Configuration Management –
Support for Multiple Business Units and Users –
Deployment in Air-Gapped Networks –
Integration with Vulnerability Scanners for Live Patch-Aware Compliance Reporting –

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1  System = Physical device, VM, or cloud instance

Why KernelCare Enterprise?

Support for Mixed
Linux Environments

Using more distributions than just Amazon Linux? KernelCare delivers rebootless patches to all of them.

An Affordable
Standalone 
Solution

KernelCare is an independent rebootless patching tool that doesn’t come as part of a costly premium support membership

Patching Beyond

the Kernel

Put patching on autopilot for shared libraries (glibc, OpenSSL), IoT devices, and QEMU virtualization systems, so you never need to reboot

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