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This product has charges associated with it for maintenance and support provided by Siteage, LLC. This is a repackaged Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Hardened Image. Standard maintenance and support are included with seller changes; however, additional charges may apply for technical support services. Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Hardened Cloud Image with the standards of the National Checklist Program (NCP) with high security configurations.
Overview
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Hardened Cloud Image, This is a repackaged open source software product with maintenance and support are included with seller changes; however, additional charges may apply for technical support services. Our Hardened images provide the low-level design on setting the security configuration of operating systems and applications in the AWS Cloud, our aim to provide a highly secure elastic cloud computing environment with built-in security stands of National Checklist Program (NCP) the U.S.
Better Performance:
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Hardened Cloud Image best option to optimize Compute utilization, due to the low-level design and the build components that perform two times better results compared to the standard Linux operating system.
Highlights
- Cloud Hardened Images (CHI) with the standard of National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S. government
- Aim to provide highly secure elastic cloud computing environment with built-in security stands of National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S.
- Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Hardened Cloud Image developed using the Low-level design, minimize the changes of package vulnerabilities, protection against cyber-attacks and easy to achieve compliance certificates
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64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Operating system
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Hardened
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
|---|---|
t3.medium Recommended | $0.02 |
t3.micro | $0.02 |
t2.micro | $0.02 |
c5n.metal | $0.02 |
m5.8xlarge | $0.02 |
c5n.xlarge | $0.02 |
r5d.16xlarge | $0.02 |
g3.4xlarge | $0.02 |
r5a.24xlarge | $0.02 |
x1e.4xlarge | $0.02 |
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Refunds through AWS are not available with Siteage, LLC products, you will only be billed for actual time of instance use as running period with all Siteage, LLC products. our aim is always 100% client satisfaction.
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
Version release notes
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS Hardened
Additional details
Usage instructions
Login with SSH client to the instance and default login user is ubuntu with SSH key specified at the time of launch. If you need to switch to root user you can type sudo -i to switch root.
SSH default port: 22 SSH user name: ubuntu
Using security best approach, it is advisable to disable SSH access for the user root and access SSH using accounts other than root and use the sudo command when root privileges are required
Login User Guide: https://chi-unix.s3.amazonaws.com/ubuntu.pdf
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Email: Siteage, LLC DevOps support team available over email [support at siteage dot net]. Feel Free to share your queries over email.
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Security Hardening Standard
National Checklist Program (NCP) U.S. government security configuration standards applied to operating system and application settings
Vulnerability Mitigation
Low-level design architecture to minimize package vulnerabilities and provide protection against cyber-attacks
Compute Performance Optimization
Optimized compute utilization with performance improvements of approximately two times compared to standard Linux operating systems
Compliance Facilitation
Built-in security configurations designed to support achievement of compliance certificates
Security Hardening Framework
Image hardened according to CIS Benchmark Level 1 profile developed through consensus-based process and accepted by government, business, industry, and academia.
Regulatory Compliance Support
Supports compliance with PCI DSS, FedRAMP, DoD Cloud Computing SRG, FISMA, and select NIST publications.
Pre-configured Security Controls
Includes hardened account and local policies, firewall configuration, and computer-based and user-based administrative templates aligned with industry best practices.
Conformance Assessment and Reporting
Includes CIS Configuration Assessment Tool (CIS-CAT Pro) HTML reports demonstrating conformance to CIS Oracle Linux 8 Level 1 Benchmark, with baseline and post-hardening assessment documentation.
Regular Security Updates
Patched monthly in alignment with software vendor updates to maintain alignment with latest security standards.
Operating System Hardening
Amazon Linux 2 with Kernel 5.10 hardened according to DISA STIG guidelines and DoD security policy requirements
Security Compliance Framework
Configuration aligned with Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) benchmarks for Department of Defense programs
Compliance Validation
Pre-hardened and scanned using industry-leading security scanning tools to validate secure baseline configuration prior to deployment
Authority to Operate Support
Baseline image designed to support Department of Defense programs requiring Authority to Operate (ATO) certification with pre-tested compliance controls
Continuous STIG Alignment
Maintained compliance with latest DISA STIG guidance with new AMI versions published as security standards are updated
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