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Publishing platform and content management system with an Amazon Web Services image for quick launch

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About Movable Type

Movable Type is a content management and blogging platform made by Six Apart. Its AMI Edition is a ready-made Amazon Machine Image on AWS Marketplace, with the operating system, web server, PHP and database already tuned for Movable Type, so a site can start running quickly.

What Movable Type offers

  • Publishing platform — a social publishing system with a Data API for managing content beyond the web.
  • AMI Edition — launches on Amazon EC2 with either Apache or nginx.
  • Simple updates — the image is updated with the yum command.
  • Licences — standard software licences remain available, paid by card or PayPal, for one server and unlimited users.

Key facts

  • Developer: Six Apart
  • Base system: Amazon Linux 2023
  • Current release: version 9, with version 8.8 also offered
  • Trial: a seven-day trial applies on every instance type

Profile written by TrustList from the business's own published information, Oct 2026.

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