KUSANAGI is an ultra-fast virtual machine that runs CMS fast and securely. It can build an environment of your choice of middleware, including a combination of stable version and the latest version.

KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure Premium Edition is a paid version of KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure, and is the only edition that includes WEXAL® Page Speed Technology.

WEXAL® Page Speed Technology is an engine that boosts page loading speed and improves Google PageSpeed Insights score without making any changes to web system source code. It can be activated and deactivated instantly, ensuring ease of use. Recommended for mid-to large-scale web sites, such as media sites, corporate sites and education affairs sites.

KUSANAGI for Microsoft Azure Premium Edition features:

• Improves WordPress (and other CMS) speed and stability
• Performance guarantee for the latest WordPress
• Update modules via repository until CentOS7 EOL
• Compatible with newest major instance types
• Shibboleth SP with nginx/Apache
• Includes web page loading booster WEXAL® Page Speed Technology
• Module updates via KUSANAGI
• Middleware updates via KUSANAGI
• Packaged with KUSANAGI-specific plugins
• WordPress visual provisioning on KUSANAGI first launch
• WordPress, concrete5, Drupal7, Drupal8 provisioning via commands
• Provision Ruby on Rails environment via commands
• Database-switch feature (MariaDB/PostgreSQL)
• Japanese search feature (mroonga)
• WAF (nginx:NAXSI Apache:ModSecurity)
• WordPress WAF (included with KUSANAGI) signature updates
• IDS (tripwire)
• IDS/IPS (suricata)
• Vulnerability scanning tool (vuls)
• Let's Encrypt
• SELinux compatibility
• monit