Overview
This is a repackaged Amazon EC2 running Red Hat Enterprise Linux with additional charges for hardening to comply with the U.S. Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Information Guides (STIG). DISA supports the U.S military and government with IT and communication services around the world. Now, this level of security is available to non-government organizations with the cost effectiveness, scalability and flexibility of Amazon EC2 including Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), Amazon CloudWatch, Elastic-Load Balancing, and Elastic IPs. This product has charges associated with the hardening functionality and seller support.
Highlights
- RHEL 8 minimal image configured to meet DISA STIG certification requirements
- A dynamically allocated server resource with an enterprise open source operating system
- Content available through BaseOS and Application Stream repositories
Details
Typical total price
$0.341/hour
Features and programs
Financing for AWS Marketplace purchases
Pricing
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Instance type | Product cost/hour | EC2 cost/hour | Total/hour |
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t2.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.132 | $0.026 | $0.158 |
t2.small | $0.143 | $0.038 | $0.181 |
t2.medium | $0.166 | $0.075 | $0.241 |
t2.large | $0.213 | $0.122 | $0.335 |
t2.xlarge | $0.306 | $0.243 | $0.549 |
t2.2xlarge | $0.561 | $0.486 | $1.047 |
t3.micro AWS Free Tier | $0.13 | $0.039 | $0.169 |
t3.small | $0.141 | $0.05 | $0.191 |
t3.medium | $0.162 | $0.07 | $0.232 |
t3.large | $0.203 | $0.112 | $0.315 |
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
Vendor refund policy
No refunds will be offered for this product
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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
Shadow-Soft LLC Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8.6 DISA STIG Compliant Image v.1.0 RHEL 8.6.0 All configurations checked for can be found here: http://shadow-soft.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AWS-RHEL-8.6-DISA-STIG-Configuration-Checks.pdf Other offerings from Shadow-Soft can be found at: https://shadow-soft.com/cloud-marketplace/
Additional details
Usage instructions
- Launch instance via 1 click or other desired method 2) Be sure to assign an existing key pair to the instance, or create a new key pair and associate it with the instance. Having an associate key pair is required to access the machine once created 3) SSH into the machine from the CLI or through the AWS Console
All configurations checked for can be found here: http://shadow-soft.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/AWS-RHEL-8.6-DISA-STIG-Configuration-Checks.pdf Other offerings from Shadow-Soft can be found at: https://shadow-soft.com/cloud-marketplace/
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Support
Vendor support
This AMI comes with limited support as defined here: https://shadow-soft.com/cloud-marketplace/ Supported Configuration state of the image at the time of instance creation is fully supported. If the instance fails to launch, cannot be accessed remotely via SSH using ec2-user or if the system fails to pass the specified OpenSCAP scan for the given compliance requirement (i.e. PCI, DISA STIG, HIPPA, etc), assistance will be provided. Instance snapshotting and duplication is supported. Not Supported Bug fixes for underlying software and packages Any modifications made to the system after provisioning could potentially cause a failure of future OpenSCAP tests for the given specific compliance requirements (i.e. PCI, DISA STIG, HIPPA, etc) support@shadow-soft.com
AWS infrastructure support
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