This product has charges associated with it for CoreNova hardening, maintenance, validation notes, and seller support. Rocky Linux 9 Hardened Graviton AMI (ARM64, LVM, XFS) provides a hardened Rocky Linux 9 EC2 baseline with SSH lockdown, audit logging, AIDE, firewall controls, and buyer-side OpenSCAP notes.
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for CoreNova hardening, maintenance, validation notes, and seller support.
Rocky Linux 9 Hardened Graviton AMI (ARM64, LVM, XFS) is a hardened EC2 AMI for teams that need a repeatable Rocky Linux 9 baseline on AWS. It is designed for platform engineering, DevOps, and security teams that want faster launch paths without building every host-control baseline from scratch.
Included baseline
SSH key-only access with root login disabled; default user: rocky.
Host firewall baseline with administrator SSH access.
auditd, rsyslog, chrony, and AIDE configured during image build.
Automatic security updates enabled where supported by the operating system.
OpenSCAP and CIS-oriented validation notes for buyer-side review.
Online volume-growth helper for LVM-based layouts.
Best for
Bastion hosts and jump boxes with key-only administration.
Application servers that need a documented hardened OS baseline.
Security-sensitive labs, demos, and production-oriented EC2 workloads.
Teams standardizing on Rocky Linux 9 across AWS accounts.
Storage and architecture
LVM with XFS for separated operating-system paths and online growth.
This listing provides a hardened baseline and documentation intended to help buyers validate controls in their own AWS accounts. It is not an official CIS-certified image. Buyers remain responsible for organization-specific compliance validation, patch policy, logging retention, and workload configuration.
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You pay by the hour for this hardened Rocky Linux 9 image, based on the EC2 instance size you run. All 15 options use ARM64 Graviton processors. They fall into groups by workload type. The t4g sizes cover general burstable use, scaling from micro up to 2xlarge. The m6g and m7g sizes handle balanced general-purpose work across two processor generations. The c6g and c7g options target compute-focused tasks, while r6g suits memory-heavy jobs. Larger sizes cost more per hour. The software fee is separate from AWS charges for EC2, storage, and data transfer.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
What do I get for the hourly software fee on each instance size?
You get a hardened Rocky Linux 9 image for ARM64 Graviton, using an LVM and XFS layout with the firewalld host firewall enabled. The image contains no baked-in passwords, keys, or credentials. You define your own access boundaries after launch.
Am I charged the software fee when my EC2 instance is stopped?
The hourly software fee meters running time only, so a fully stopped instance stops accruing software charges. You may still pay AWS for attached EBS storage while stopped. AWS infrastructure charges are billed separately and are not part of this software fee.
What is not included in the software fee, and who handles support?
The software fee excludes AWS charges for EC2, EBS storage, GPU, networking, and data transfer. CoreNova provides email support on a 5x8 weekday basis for launch, access, and metadata issues. It does not cover 24x7 managed operations or your application, IAM, or Kubernetes configuration.
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30-day refund on AWS Marketplace software fees for this product. Email support@corenovacloud.com with your AWS account ID and purchase date. Software fees only; EC2 charges are not refundable by the seller. We reply within 5 business days. Free trial: no software charges during the trial.
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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
Rocky Linux 9 Hardened Graviton AMI (ARM64, LVM, XFS)
Version: v20260825
This release rebuilds the AMI with the standardized CoreNova builder-ami pipeline.
Baseline:
Latest available upstream OS packages at build time.
SSH key-only access, root login disabled.
auditd, rsyslog, chrony, and AIDE baseline.
Firewall baseline with SSH allowed.
Automatic security update service enabled where supported.
Cloud-init cleaned before image capture.
Marketplace checks require unencrypted EBS snapshots and no existing product codes.
Compliance note: This image provides a hardened baseline and validation artifacts. Buyers should run their own compliance validation for their regulatory requirements.
Additional details
Usage instructions
Overview
Rocky Linux 9 Hardened Graviton AMI (ARM64, LVM, XFS) is a hardened EC2 AMI built by CoreNova Intelligence Limited for production use. The AMI does not expire and does not disable features based on time, user count, or instance count.
Expected SSH settings:
permitrootlogin no
passwordauthentication no
Also verify EC2 instance status checks in the Amazon EC2 console.
Sensitive data and credentials
The AMI does not include hardcoded passwords, private keys, AWS credentials, or customer data. Customer-created keys and workload data remain in the buyer's AWS account. Linux system logs are stored under /var/log unless the buyer changes operating-system defaults.
Encryption
The Marketplace source AMI uses unencrypted EBS snapshots as required for AWS Marketplace AMI ingestion. Buyers can launch or copy the AMI with encrypted EBS volumes according to their own AWS account policy.
Service quotas and costs
This AMI uses standard EC2, EBS, networking, and AWS Marketplace software billing. Request quota increases through AWS Service Quotas if the account lacks enough EC2 instances, vCPUs, Elastic IPs, or EBS capacity. AWS infrastructure charges are billed separately by AWS.
CoreNova supports launch, SSH access, baseline service checks, Marketplace AMI metadata, and documented hardening behavior. Include AWS Region, AMI ID, EC2 Instance ID, instance type, and steps to reproduce.
Refund: 30-day refund on Marketplace software fees for verified technical issues. AWS infrastructure charges are billed by AWS and are not refundable by the seller.
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