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.