This security-focused, hardened AMI of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 is preconfigured by Frontline to the recommendations of CIS and DevSec Benchmarks. This image has been hardened by Frontline and is configured with the majority of the recommendations of the Level 1 Profile settings within the CIS Benchmark for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2.

Frontline believes that security is essential and must be foundation to any organization running their workloads in the cloud. Cloud environments and operating systems are not secure by default. Launching an image hardened according to the trusted security configuration baselines will reduce cost, time, and risk to an organization.

Please note that this is the default hardened Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 AMI that our security professionals recommend. Frontline provides ongoing security and maintenance updates on a quarterly basis to all instances running this Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 AMI.

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