This product has charges associated with it for providing hardening and seller premium support. Engineered for mission-critical, regulated environments, this STIG-compliant Rocky Linux 10 image delivers a fully hardened security baseline trusted across government, defense, healthcare, and financial sectors.
This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for the extensive security hardening and ongoing seller premium support included with this image.
Each instance is built from a clean upstream Rocky Linux 10 release and then hardened to STIG standards through a rigorous multi stage automated process that applies hundreds of security controls, reduces attack surface, and creates a compliant baseline from first boot. Our team maintains these hardened baselines, validates updates, and provides premium support to help customers deploy confidently into high security and regulated environments such as government, defense, healthcare, and finance.
Organizations choose hardened STIG compliant images when they need a secure foundation they can trust from day one. These images support compliance requirements, regulated workloads, zero trust initiatives, and mission critical systems that cannot tolerate misconfigurations or security drift. They remove the need to build and maintain your own secure baseline, reduce operational overhead, and provide consistent and repeatable security across large fleets.
VM Pro Support has been a dedicated provider of hardened infrastructure since 2021 and is trusted by hundreds of enterprise organizations and government customers who rely on our images in their most sensitive environments. Our work supports systems that operate without interruption, protect critical workloads, and require absolute confidence in their security posture. We deliver hardened images that perform reliably at scale and we stand behind them with consistent and dependable support that customers count on every single day.
Highlights
STIG hardened Rocky Linux 10 image that applies hundreds of verified security controls to deliver a secure and compliant baseline from the very first boot.
Purpose built for high security and regulated environments including government, defense, healthcare, and finance where strong security and consistency are mandatory.
Backed by VM Pro Support with continuously maintained hardened baselines and dependable premium support trusted by hundreds of enterprise and government customers.
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You pay by the hour for this hardened Rocky Linux 10 image, billed for each running instance. Pricing is set per Amazon EC2 instance type, so your rate depends on the instance you choose rather than a fixed plan. The listing covers hundreds of instance types across general purpose, compute, memory, storage, GPU, and high-performance families, plus bare-metal options. Smaller instances carry lower hourly software rates and larger instances carry higher rates. AWS infrastructure charges apply separately from this software fee. You can switch instance types as your compute needs change.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What does the hourly software rate cover, and does it include the underlying AWS instance cost?
The hourly rate is a software fee for the hardened Rocky Linux 10 image running on your chosen Amazon EC2 instance type. It does not include AWS compute, storage, or network charges. AWS bills those infrastructure costs separately on the same invoice.
Am I charged the software fee when my instance is stopped or paused?
The software fee meters running instance-hours only. Fully stopped instances do not accrue the hourly software charge. Any AWS storage attached to a stopped instance may still incur AWS fees, but the software licence charges for running time.
How does my bill change if I move to a different instance type?
Each instance type carries its own hourly software rate. When you switch types, the rate for the new type applies for the hours it runs. Smaller instances carry lower hourly rates and larger ones carry higher rates, so your cost tracks the instance you run.
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Version release notes
Monthly security + OS updates - June 2026
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Connect over SSH using the key pair selected at launch. The default user is shown above. See the listing's usage instructions for full details.
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This instance includes limited premium OS support designed to assist with both standard OS operations and security specific concerns related to the hardened configuration. You can reach our team directly at support@vmprosupport.com
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This product has charges associated with it for providing hardening and seller premium support. Engineered for mission-critical, regulated environments, this STIG-compliant Rocky Linux 10 image delivers a fully hardened security baseline trusted across government, defense, healthcare, and financial sectors.
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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