GoldDisk Plus is a DoD STIG-hardened Windows 2012 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 patented 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.

Please note: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2 are reaching end of support on October 10th 2023. These images will be removed from AWS Marketplace by October 10th, and you will no longer be able to access license included AMIs provided by Amazon after this date. Custom AMIs you own and active EC2 instances will not be impacted, but we recommend upgrading your current workloads. Please review the end of support FAQ here: https://aws.amazon.com/windows/faq/#eos-microsoft-products. 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.