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CIS Hardened Images® (AWS)

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Problem

When creating a new CIS Hardened Image in AWS or switching Instance Types for an existing HI VM, the following message is displayed:

“Failed to create / modify instance type - The instance configuration for this AWS Marketplace product is not supported“

Solution

AWS frequently adds new Instance Types to their available lineup, which may include processor architecture and other hardware changes that require review and approval by the developers offering products on AWS Marketplace. These new instances are opt-in and have to be verified & marked as compatible by the vendor.

Note

Between December 6, 2023 and April 2024, we will not implement requests to add new instance types on AWS. After that ~90 day window, we will modify the requested images to add the new instance types as long as that instance type family is available for that image. This is related to the CIS Hardened Images on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Price Change The CIS Cloud Development team reviews AWS Instance Type requests on a quarterly basis and adds functionality to the image at that time. If a newly published Instance Type is compatible with the respective CIS Hardened Image, we will always attempt to have that Instance Type added by the end of each quarter.


A list of currently compatible Instance Types can be viewed by navigating to the CIS Hardened Image page on AWS Marketplace and selecting the “Pricing” tab. The supported EC2 Instance Types are displayed in the pricing list along with their cost.

Shown below is an example of the “CIS Amazon Linux 2 Kernel 4.14 Benchmark - Level 1“ offering.

For more details on switching Instance Types in AWS for existing VMs, please refer to the following article:
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/resize-limitations.html

Keywords; AWS Instance types

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Allan Cornwell

Reviewed by

Chris Boldiston Amanda McGown Andrew Dannenberger Perfect Tangban (Unlicensed) Parami Swenson Nick Romanzo

Approved by

Chris Boldiston Amanda McGown Andrew Dannenberger Perfect Tangban (Unlicensed) Parami Swenson Nick Romanzo

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Amanda McGown updated date, reviewed, published

added:
”between December 6, 2023 and April 1, 2024, we will not implement requests to add new instance types on AWS. After that 90 day window, we will modify the requested image to add the new instance types as long as that instance type family is available for that image.”

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Removed this statement:

The CIS Cloud Development team reviews AWS Instance Type requests on a quarterly basis and adds functionality to the image at that time. If a newly published Instance Type is compatible with the respective CIS Hardened Image, it will always be added by the end of each quarter.

NOTES

Removed this statement and replaced it with the one above since we are past the April date

Between December 6, 2023 and April 2024, we will not implement requests to add new instance types on AWS. After that ~90 day window, we will modify the requested images to add the new instance types as long as that instance type family is available for that image. This is related to the CIS Hardened Images on Amazon Web Services (AWS) Price Change

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