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Snowstorm SNOMED CT Terminology Server on Ubuntu 24.04 by cloudimg

Snowstorm is the official open source SNOMED CT terminology server from SNOMED International, built on Elasticsearch for performance and enterprise scale. It serves SNOMED CT clinical terminology through a REST API and a standards based HL7 FHIR terminology API, supporting concept lookup, description and full text search, the SNOMED Expression Constraint Language (ECL), reference sets, and the FHIR CodeSystem, ValueSet and ConceptMap operations. Licensed under Apache-2.0.

Why Choose cloudimg?

• 24/7 Expert Support with guaranteed 24 hour response. support@cloudimg.co.uk
• No default login and no baked secret — a unique Elasticsearch superuser password is generated on each VM at first boot and written to a root-only file, and the terminology API is served read only so mutating and admin operations are protected
• Secure by default — Elasticsearch is bound to loopback only and a default-deny firewall opens only SSH and the web port
• Licence respecting — the multi-gigabyte SNOMED CT content is never bundled; the server ships healthy and empty, and you import your own licensed RF2 release

What is Included

• Snowstorm 10.11.2 (Apache-2.0) on Eclipse Temurin 17, served on port 80 through nginx with the Swagger interface at the site root
• Elasticsearch 8.11.1 as the backing datastore, single node, bound to loopback only
• A per-VM Elasticsearch superuser password generated at first boot; read-only API by default
• systemd services enabled at boot; Java heaps tuned for the recommended 8 GiB VM
• Fully patched Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with automatic security updates