This AMI, CIS Benchmark Compliant CentOS 7.7 Hardened Image - Levels 1&2, is prepared in accordance with the CIS benchmark as the name suggests. CIS benchmarks are vendor neutral and acceptable to variety of users from the industry and government, and, they also comply with many cybersecurity frameworks. By using a hardened operating system for running your applications is taking the first step to secure production environments from security breaches. This AMI is preconfigured following the CIS benchmark for Linux, covering levels 1 and 2.