GoldDisk Plus is a DoD STIG-hardened Windows 2008 R2 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI). GoldDisk Plus allows customers to quickly establish DISA Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) compliant servers in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud environment. As an included option, GoldDisk Plus goes well beyond providing a simply up-to-date STIG-complaint OS image. The "plus" in GoldDisk Plus is ConfigOS, our revolutionary tool for STIG policy remediation. ConfigOS utilizes new patent-pending technology to automate the remediation of production servers using a simple XML policy signature. The traditional multi-day STIG policy update and testing process now takes as little as 5 minutes - reducing server security policy maintenance expenses by over 70%. GoldDisk Plus allows government customers, and those organizations that support them, to reduce the cost and effort for implementing and maintaining compliant systems in the Amazon cloud environment.

Amazon EC2 running Microsoft Windows Server is a fast and dependable environment for deploying applications using the Microsoft Web Platform. Amazon EC2 enables you to run any compatible Windows-based solution on AWS' high-performance, reliable, cost-effective, cloud computing platform. Common Windows use cases include Enterprise Windows-based application hosting, website and web-service hosting, data processing, media transcoding, distributed testing, ASP.NET application hosting, and any other application requiring Windows software.

Note: Microsoft ended support for Windows Server 2008 and 2008R2 on January 14th 2020. These images are no longer available from AWS Marketplace. Please review the end of support FAQ here: https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/#eos-microsoft-products