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This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for a pre-hardened, AWS-optimized image with verification reports and maintenance. This AMI delivers Rocky Linux 8.10 LVM hardened and tuned for EC2 by Easycloud-with security scan reports and SBOM.
Overview
This is a repackaged open source software product wherein additional charges apply for a pre-hardened, AWS-optimized image with verifiable evidence and maintenance. Based on Rocky Linux 8.10 LVM, this AMI is hardened, tuned for Amazon EC2 workloads, and equipped with a complete evidence pack and Software Bill of Materials (SBOM).
Value-Added Features
Security:
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Security Hardening: SELinux enforcing with the targeted policy, ICMP redirects disabled, unused kernel modules blocked, and a shorter SSH login window.
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Fully Patched at Release: Zero packages with a pending update at build time, verified. The complete CVE scan ships inside the image.
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Comprehensive Evidence Pack: Every AMI includes an evidence pack located under /opt/optimization-report/:
- Tuning_Parameters.txt: Every performance tuning parameter, each shown against the Rocky Linux default, with how to undo it.
- Security_Parameters.txt: SELinux and every security setting, each shown against the Rocky Linux default, with how to undo it.
- sbom.spdx.json: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in SPDX format generated from the RPM database.
- cve_scan.txt / cve_scan_full.txt.gz: Vulnerability scan reports categorizing CVEs by upstream patch availability.
- key_files.sha256: SHA-256 checksums of the key configuration files described in the reports, so the delivered state can be verified.
- README.txt: Index file detailing artifact contents, administrative operational guidelines, and configuration defaults.
System Footprint & Reliability Optimization:
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Minimal Footprint: Built on a minimal OS installation to reduce the attack surface and remove unnecessary packages.
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Storage Layout: Configured with a streamlined LVM root (/) volume layout to minimize disk footprint while ensuring core system operation.
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Validation Testing: Functional verification conducted on clean AMI launches through multi-round integration testing, verifying complete software lifecycle operations with SELinux enforcing.
AWS Network & Kernel Tuning:
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Network Stack: TCP BBR congestion control with fair queueing, increased connection backlogs, buffer adjustments, and MTU probing enabled.
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System Tuning: Red Hat tuned daemon active with a custom cloud profile, custom transparent hugepages (madvise), and modified memory/EBS writeback parameters.
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EC2 Integration: Configured with NVMe I/O timeouts, Amazon Time Sync (chrony), IRQ balance daemon, and size-capped persistent journald logging.
Operational Tools
- Preinstalled Tools: AWS SSM Session Manager enabled, CloudWatch Agent installed (disabled by default).
Maintenance:
- Maintenance Specifications: Rebuilt and updated bi-weekly to monthly incorporating upstream Rocky Linux 8.10 security updates, updated artifact documentation per release, and administrative documentation.
About Rocky Linux 8 LVM
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Rocky Linux 8 Foundation: Provides a robust, enterprise-grade underlying OS with deep structural alignment to RHEL, ensuring high security and seamless ecosystem compatibility with AlmaLinux, CentOS Stream, and traditional CentOS deployments.
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Enterprise Stability: Rocky Linux 8.10 represents the culmination of the RHEL 8 lineage, offering long-term binary compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As the final minor release of the Rocky 8 series, it incorporates years of upstream hardening, security updates, and stability improvements, making it a dependable base for mission-critical workloads.
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Ideal Foundation for Modern Cloud Infrastructure: By starting with a bloat-free Rocky Linux 8 minimal installation, maximum CPU and memory are dedicated entirely to your own workloads. This makes it the perfect, conflict-free foundation for web and application hosting including Nginx, Apache HTTPD, Apache Tomcat, HAProxy, and WordPress, as well as data layers built on MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, and Elasticsearch. It seamlessly integrates with modern runtimes and container platforms (Python, Node.js, OpenJDK, Docker, Kubernetes), and serves as a rock-solid backbone for DevOps and observability stacks (Jenkins, HashiCorp Vault, Grafana, Prometheus, RabbitMQ), ensuring your enterprise Linux infrastructure scales without limits.
Highlights
- Hardened Base: Pre-configured with SELinux enforcing, network kernel parameter hardening, kernel module blocklists, and SSH hardening out of the box.
- Comprehensive Security Reports & SBOM: Includes verifiable configuration reports and a complete Software Bill of Materials (SBOM), enabling instant verification of the delivered settings and rapid vulnerability assessments out-of-the-box.
- AWS Performance Tuning & Regular Updates: Optimised for EC2 with TCP BBR and Red Hat tuned cloud profiles, updated bi-weekly to monthly with upstream security patches.
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Pricing is based on actual usage, with charges varying according to how much you consume. Subscriptions have no end date and may be canceled any time. Alternatively, you can pay upfront for a contract, which typically covers your anticipated usage for the contract duration. Any usage beyond contract will incur additional usage-based costs.
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Dimension | Cost/hour |
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t3.medium Recommended | $0.04 |
t2.micro | $0.03 |
t3.micro | $0.03 |
t2.nano | $0.03 |
t3.nano | $0.00 |
t1.micro | $0.03 |
t3a.micro | $0.03 |
m1.small | $0.04 |
t2.small | $0.04 |
t3.small | $0.04 |
Dimensions summary
You pay by the hour for a hardened Rocky Linux 8.10 (LVM) image, billed per running instance. Pricing is not tiered or plan-based. Instead, you pick the AWS EC2 instance type that matches your workload, and the software rate is set for each one. The many options cover general-purpose, compute, memory, storage, GPU, and bare-metal families across sizes from nano to very large. Larger instances with more CPU and memory carry higher hourly rates. You stop paying when you stop the instance, so cost scales with the capacity you choose and the hours you run.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
The hourly rate covers the hardened Rocky Linux 8.10 (LVM) software image for each running instance. The image is built with security hardening following industry benchmarks, firewall configuration, and access controls. AWS charges for the underlying compute and storage are billed separately by AWS, not included in this software rate.
The software rate meters only running instance-hours. When you stop the instance, software charges stop. Stopped instances may still accrue AWS storage fees for attached volumes, but those are AWS charges, not the software rate. Cost scales with the hours each instance actually runs.
Each EC2 instance type has its own software rate. Larger families and sizes provide more CPU, memory, or specialized hardware like GPU or bare-metal. The rate is set per instance type to match that capacity. You pick the type fitting your workload, so cost follows the capacity you choose.
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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.
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Connection Methods:
To access your instance, SSH into the public IP address as rocky using your specified launch key pair. You can switch to the root user environment by running sudo su -. Please see the links below for additional information:
Firewall Configuration
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SSH (Port 22): Required for initial system access.
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Security Recommendation: For production environments, strictly limit SSH access to trusted IP addresses only via AWS Security Groups.
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