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Build Golden Images with CIS Linux Build Kit within Amazon EC2 Image Builder
The build and rollout of hardened and certified operating systems (OS) is an imperative of any Cloud Operations (CloudOps) or Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) team within an organization. The guideline and security controls to certify the images come from the respective teams within your organization who, in turn, refer to the popular industry wide […]
Building CIS hardened Golden Images and Pipelines with EC2 Image Builder
Until recently, customers had to navigate to the AWS Marketplace Console and search for a compatible Amazon Machine Image (AMI) product for your image pipeline. They also had to write their own custom components to harden the operating systems to meet Center for Internet Security (CIS) Benchmark guidelines. This required subscriptions to the CIS Benchmark […]
Creating Packer images using AWS System Manager Automation
If you run AWS EC2 instances in AWS, then you are probably familiar with the concept of pre-baking Amazon Machine Images (AMIs). That is, preloading all needed software and configuration on an EC2 instance, then creating an image of that. The resulting image can then be used to launch new instances with all software and […]