CIS Hardened Images on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace

CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark

AWS directly contributes to the CIS community consensus process that created the CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark. The purpose of this CIS Benchmark is to provide prescriptive guidance for your AWS account. It provides configuration recommendations for identity and access management, monitoring and logging, and networking.

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Making Cloud Security Automation Easier

EC2 Image Builder is an AWS service that simplifies the process of building a golden image. To help you automate your cloud security efforts, we're working with EC2 Image Builder to help you build secure golden images off of our CIS Hardened Images.

Level 1 hardening components are available in EC2 Image Builder for the following operating systems:

• Red Hat 7
• Amazon Linux 2
• Microsoft Windows Server 2019
• Microsoft Windows Server 2022 

Learn how this helps you automate your cloud security efforts.

Meet your Shared Responsibility on AWS with CIS

Depending on what your organization’s cloud infrastructure looks like, the responsibility of security actions varies between the cloud user and Amazon Web Services. The AWS Shared Responsibility Model outlines what security actions an organization is responsible for and what security actions AWS manages. CIS offers globally-recognized cybersecurity resources, like the CIS Hardened Images, that can help cloud consumers meet the expectations of the shared responsibility model.

Learn more in our guide:

Cloud Security and the AWS Shared Responsibility Model with CIS

Security Automation and Orchestration (SAO)

CIS Benchmarks and CIS Hardened Images are part of the AWS SAO methodology. AWS SAO enables AWS customers to constrain, track, and publish continuous risk treatments, configurations, and assimilate DevOps routines into a “Type Accredited” secure AWS architecture. This architecture is configured to converge common security frameworks (e.g. FedRAMP, DoD CC SRG, PCI-DSS, IRS 1075, etc.) through the use of security as code practices.

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