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Dify Premium is our AWS AMI offering that allows custom branding and is one-click deployable to your AWS VPC as an EC2. Head to AWS Marketplace to subscribe. It’s useful in a couple of scenarios:
  • You’re looking to create one or a few applications as a small/medium business and you care about data residency.
  • You are interested in Dify Cloud, but your use case require more resource than supported by the plans.
  • You’d like to run a POC before adopting Dify Enterprise within your organization.

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Setup

If this is your first time accessing Dify, enter the Admin initialization password (set to your EC2’s instance ID) to start the set up process. After the AMI is deployed, access Dify via the instance’s public IP found in th EC2 console (HTTP port 80 is used by default).

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Upgrading

In the EC2 instance, run the following commands: 
git clone https://github.com/langgenius/dify.git /tmp/dify
mv -f /tmp/dify/docker/* /dify/
rm -rf /tmp/dify
docker-compose down
docker-compose pull
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.override.yaml up -d
This section describes migrating an older Community Edition to Dify v1.0.0+. For general upgrades of Dify Premium or Community Edition to versions later than this specific migration scope, please refer to their respective main upgrade instructions.
The upgrade process involves the following steps:
  1. Backup your data
  2. Migrate plugins
  3. Upgrade the main dify project

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1. Backup Data

1.1 Execute the cd command to navigate to your Dify project directory and create a backup branch.1.2 Run the following command to back up your docker-compose YAML file (optional).
cd docker
cp docker-compose.yaml docker-compose.yaml.$(date +%s).bak
1.3 Run the command to stop docker services, then execute the backup data command in the Docker directory.
docker compose down
tar -cvf volumes-$(date +%s).tgz volumes

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2. Upgrade the Version

v1.0.0 supports deployment via Docker Compose. Navigate to your Dify project path and run the following commands to upgrade to the Dify version:
git checkout 1.0.0 # Switch to the 1.0.0 branch
cd docker
docker compose -f docker-compose.yaml up -d

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3. Migrate Tools to Plugins

Important Note on Command Execution and Package Management (for v1.0.0 migration):
  • Default Container Name: The docker exec command examples use docker-api-1. If your API container has a different name or ID (which you can find using docker ps), please adjust the command accordingly.
  • Python Package Manager (uv vs. poetry):
  • Dify switched from poetry to uv for Python package management starting with version v1.3.0 to enhance performance. For general operations in Dify v1.3.0 or newer, the standard command is uv run flask ....
  • This specific section focuses on upgrading to Dify v1.0.0. During the period of Dify v1.0.0 up to (but not including) v1.3.0, poetry was the package manager. Therefore, the flask commands in the examples below correctly use poetry run .... The code examples emphasize the current uv standard in comments first, then show the poetry command relevant to this specific v1.0.0 migration scope.
The purpose of this step is to automatically migrate the tools and model vendors previously used in the Community Edition and install them into the new plugin environment.
  1. Run the docker ps command to check the API container name or ID. The default is often docker-api-1.
Example:
docker ps
CONTAINER ID   IMAGE                                       COMMAND                  CREATED       STATUS                 PORTS                                                                                                                             NAMES
417241cd****   nginx:latest                                "sh -c 'cp /docker-e…"   3 hours ago   Up 3 hours             0.0.0.0:80->80/tcp, :::80->80/tcp, 0.0.0.0:443->443/tcp, :::443->443/tcp                                                          docker-nginx-1
f84aa773****   langgenius/dify-api:1.0.0                   "/bin/bash /entrypoi…"   3 hours ago   Up 3 hours             5001/tcp                                                                                                                          docker-worker-1
a3cb19c2****   langgenius/dify-api:1.0.0                   "/bin/bash /entrypoi…"   3 hours ago   Up 3 hours             5001/tcp                                                                                                                          docker-api-1
Run the command docker exec -it docker-api-1 bash to enter the container terminal (if your container name is different, use that instead), and then run:
# For Dify v1.3.0+ environments, the standard command is 'uv run ...'.
uv run flask extract-plugins --workers=20
#
# If your target migration version for the Community Edition part described here is Dify v1.0.0 up to (but not including) v1.3.0, use 'poetry':
# poetry run flask extract-plugins --workers=20
If an error occurs (e.g., uv or poetry not found) when trying to execute the commands as per this guide for v1.0.0 migration, ensure the poetry environment is correctly set up on the server as per the original prerequisites for that version. If the terminal asks for input after running a poetry command, press “Enter” to skip.
This command will extract all models and tools currently in use in the environment. The workers parameter controls the number of parallel processes used during extraction and can be adjusted as needed. After the command runs, it will generate a plugins.jsonl file containing plugin information for all workspaces in the current Dify instance.Ensure your network can access the public internet and support access to: https://marketplace.dify.ai. Continue running the following command in the docker-api-1 container:
# For Dify v1.3.0+ environments, the standard command is 'uv run ...'.
uv run flask install-plugins --workers=2
#
# If your target migration version for the Community Edition part described here is Dify v1.0.0 up to (but not including) v1.3.0, use 'poetry':
# poetry run flask install-plugins --workers=2
This command will download and install all necessary plugins into the latest Community Edition. When the terminal shows Install plugins completed., the migration is complete.

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Customizing

Just like self-hosted deploy, you may modify the environment variables under .env in your EC2 instance as you see fit. Then, restart Dify with: 
docker-compose down
docker-compose -f docker-compose.yaml -f docker-compose.override.yaml up -d

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WebApp Logo & Branding Customization

You can enable this feature in Customization under settings, enable Remove Powered by Dify and upload your own logo.