Sold by: Citadel Security
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This product has charges associated with it for hardening and maintenance. This Citadel VM is secured using 300+ open source security controls and validated using Citadel Audit.
Overview
This product has charges associated with it for hardening and maintenance. This Citadel Hardened VM is secured using 300+ security controls and validated using Citadel Audit. This AMI has been hardened by security professionals to meet the rigorous standards of the PCI DSS.
This AMI delivers a secure, stable, and high-performance environment, ideal for developing and running cloud and enterprise applications. Regularly updated and maintained, this Citadel VM stands at the forefront of reliability and efficiency.
Deploying this image, hardened with the latest open source security frameworks and verified by Citadel Audit, significantly enhances your operational security while reducing costs, time, and associated risks. Tailored to meet PCI compliance standards, it offers a robust foundation for securing sensitive data. However, we recommend customers conduct their own verification using their preferred tools to ensure full compliance.
We've meticulously configured our Citadel VM to incorporate the most effective security recommendations, ensuring maximum protection without compromising the technology's functionality or performance.
This is our recommended default Hardened AMI, backed by our commitment to providing continuous security and maintenance updates, ensuring your infrastructure remains secure and up-to-date with the latest standards.
Highlights
- Current and Consistent: Citadel's hardened images are kept up-to-date with the latest security patches and updates, ensuring you always have the most recent advancements in security and technology at your fingertips.
- Built on open source secure frameworks and validated by Citadel Audit, our solutions offer unparalleled security and reliability, widely accepted by governments and industries. Our community-driven approach safeguards critical infrastructure and sensitive data, proving our commitment to the highest cybersecurity standards. Essential for top-tier security defense.
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64-bit (Arm) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Operating system
CentOs 9
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Pricing
Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
Additional AWS infrastructure costs may apply. Use the AWS Pricing Calculator to estimate your infrastructure costs.
Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t4g.small Recommended | $0.14 |
c6gd.large | $0.32 |
t4g.micro | $0.14 |
c6gd.8xlarge | $0.64 |
g5g.16xlarge | $1.20 |
c6g.4xlarge | $0.64 |
i8ge.metal-24xl | $1.20 |
c6g.xlarge | $0.64 |
m6gd.medium | $0.32 |
r8gn.metal-24xl | $1.20 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for this hardened, PCI-focused CentOS 9 image running on ARM64 (Graviton) instances. Each dimension maps to a specific AWS instance type, so your rate follows the instance you launch. Smaller instances like t4g.nano or c8g.medium bill at lower hourly rates. Rates rise as you move to larger sizes, such as 48xlarge or bare-metal options. General-purpose, compute, memory, and storage-optimized families are all listed. Pick the instance that fits your workload, and you pay only for hours used. AWS infrastructure charges apply separately from this software fee.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The software fee meters running hours. A fully stopped instance stops accruing this hourly software charge. You may still see separate AWS charges, such as storage for attached volumes, while the instance is stopped. Only running time triggers the software fee shown on each dimension.
One hour covers the maintained, PCI-focused CentOS 9 ARM64 image running on your chosen instance. This is the OS baseline only. Your team still owns application security, cloud architecture, identity, networking, logging, evidence retention, and assessor validation. AWS infrastructure charges are billed separately from this software fee.
There is no automatic tier upgrade. You launch the instance type you want, and that dimension's hourly rate applies for the hours it runs. To change size, launch a different instance type. Your bill reflects each running instance's own rate, not a shared threshold.
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Vendor refund policy
At present, Citadel does not provide refunds. Billing will be only for the actual duration of instance use. Just like other Citadel offerings, our primary objective is to ensure complete satisfaction for all our customers. Should you need further assistance, please reach out to our team directly at support@citadelelement.com .
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Delivery details
64-bit (Arm) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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.
Version release notes
Updated version of Citadel AMI with security patches.
Additional details
Usage instructions
How to connect to the VM:
To connect to your instance, the use of SSH via port 22 is necessary. The default username for establishing this connection is ec2-user. For a more comprehensive understanding of the standard procedure for connecting to an instance on AWS, please consult the following documentation: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstances.html
Hardening Notice and Assistance
This image comes pre-configured with PCI compliance already integrated. However, it's worth noting that the use of a hardened system could call for certain adaptations. The advanced security measures might restrict some functionalities or require additional actions for certain operations due to its hardened nature. Should any issues arise, we recommend reaching out to the software provider for further assistance.
Other Information
-The product operates independently without needing extra external resources.
-To ensure optimal performance, it's advised that you perform updates routinely alongside adopting newly released versions from Citadel.
-This software doesn't require any security keys or credentials to be rotated. It's strongly suggested to utilize EC2 instance connect or AWS Systems Manager Session Manager for best results.
-The functioning of this software does not involve the collection of any customer data.
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Support
Vendor support
Support is part of what you get with a Citadel image, and it comes from a US-based team that works on these builds every day. Email support@citadelpci.com with anything - choosing the right image, how the hardening behaves, patching and releases, evidence for a PCI DSS review, or a question you are not sure who else to ask. We read every message, and we would much rather you ask than guess. More about how we work with customers:
AWS infrastructure support
AWS Support is a one-on-one, fast-response support channel that is staffed 24x7x365 with experienced and technical support engineers. The service helps customers of all sizes and technical abilities to successfully utilize the products and features provided by Amazon Web Services.
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