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This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
Overview
The CIS Hardened STIG Image on Amazon Linux 2023 is a pre-configured image built by the Center for Internet Security (CIS®) for use on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2). It is a pre-configured, security-hardened image that aligns with the robust security recommendations, the CIS Benchmarks, making it easier for organizations to meet regulatory requirements.
Not only is this image pre-hardened to the CIS Benchmarks guidance, but it is also patched monthly in alignment with the updates from the software vendor.
Key Benefits
Guidance from the DoD Cloud Computing SRG indicates that CIS Benchmarks are an acceptable alternative when DISA STIGs are not available. DISA STIGs are configuration standards for DoD Information Assurance (IA) and IA-enabled devices/systems. Launching an image that is hardened according to the CIS STIG Benchmark recommendations provides the ability to easily implement CIS guidance and DISA STIG at once. No packages are installed on or removed from this image outside of those already present on the base image or as recommended in alignment with the corresponding CIS Benchmark recommendations.
To demonstrate conformance to the CIS Amazon Linux 2023 STIG Benchmark, industry-recognized hardening guidance, each image includes an HTML report from CIS Configuration Assessment Tool (CIS-CAT® Pro). Each CIS Hardened Image contains the following files:
These reports are located in /home/CIS_Hardened_Reports.
For customized pricing options or private offers, reach out to us at cloudsecurity@cisecurity.org .
To learn more or access the corresponding CIS Benchmark, please visit https://www.cisecurity.org/cis-benchmarks or sign up for a free account on our community platform, CIS WorkBench, https://workbench.cisecurity.org/ .
Highlights
- Hardened according to a STIG CIS Benchmark that is developed in a consensus-based process and that is accepted by government, business, industry, and academia.
- Using an AMI hardened by CIS reduces time, cost, and risk associated with your organization's AWS solution.
- Pre-configured to align with industry best practices that are developed and supported by CIS, this image has hardened account and local policies, firewall configuration, and computer-based and user-based administrative templates.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.medium Recommended | $0.022 |
t2.micro | $0.022 |
t3.micro | $0.022 |
g7e.24xlarge | $0.06 |
r6i.metal | $0.06 |
vt1.6xlarge | $0.045 |
g7e.4xlarge | $0.035 |
g4dn.2xlarge | $0.026 |
inf2.8xlarge | $0.05 |
g6f.2xlarge | $0.026 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for this pre-hardened virtual machine image running on Amazon Linux 2023, configured to CIS Benchmark and DISA STIG standards. Pricing is not tiered by features. Instead, each dimension maps to a specific EC2 instance type, such as general-purpose, compute-optimized, memory-optimized, storage-optimized, GPU, and high-performance families. Your hourly software rate scales with the instance size and family you select. Larger instances carry higher hourly rates. The software charge is separate from the AWS EC2 infrastructure cost. You choose the instance that matches your workload and pay only for hours used.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
Each unit is one running instance-hour of the pre-hardened Amazon Linux 2023 image on the EC2 type you pick. The rate covers the CIS Benchmark and DISA STIG hardened software layer only. You pay the underlying EC2 compute, storage, and network charges to AWS separately.
The hourly software rate meters running time only. A stopped or terminated instance does not accrue software charges. You are billed for each hour the instance runs, based on its type. Note that stopped instances may still incur AWS storage costs, which are billed by AWS.
Your rate is tied to the specific EC2 instance type you launch, not to features. Larger instances and certain families like GPU or high-performance carry higher hourly rates. If you move to a different instance type, your hourly software charge changes to match that type. You pay only for hours used.
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An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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No sensitive information supplied by customers will be stored outside this instance. No data encryption configuration is applicable to this instance. You can encrypt the instance EBS volume per standard EC2 processes. No programmatic system credentials and cryptographic keys are used by this instance. Launch the instance via the AWS Marketplace or EC2 console. Navigate to your Amazon EC2 console and verify that you're in the correct region. Choose instance and select your launched instance. Select the server to display your metadata page and choose the Status checks tab at the bottom of the page to review if your status checks passed or failed. Connect using SSH. Use ec2-user as the username. Immediately apply latest security updates to the instance.
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This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
This product has charges associated with the pre-built hardening to the CIS Benchmarks™ and recurring maintenance. The CIS Hardened Images® are hardened in accordance with the associated CIS Benchmarks, an industry best practice for secure configuration. Reduce cost, time, and risk by building your AWS solution with CIS AMIs.
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