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GUI

Using the AWS EC2 Dashboard, navigate to the running instance and reference the “AMI name“ or “AMI location” property fields.

Hardened Images in AWS released after March 2024 are identified by a two-digit number representing the month that the image was published in; for example, v01 indicates an image released in January, and v12 an image released in December of this year.

In the below example screenshot, the image version is 1.0.0.16:

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v03, indicating it was published in March:

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CLI

Using the AWS CLI, run the following command, replacing MY-INSTANCE-ID with your respective instance ID:

 aws ec2 describe-instances --instance-ids MY-INSTANCE-ID --query 'Reservations[*].Instances[*].ImageId' --output text | xargs -I {} aws ec2 describe-images --image-ids {} --query 'Images[*].Name' --output text

The output will contain the full AMI name and version number indicator of your CIS Hardened Image:

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CLI

Using the Azure CLI, run the following command, replacing MY-DISK-ID and MY-RESOURCE-GROUP with their respective values:

az disk show --resource-group MY-RESOURCE-GROUP --name MY-DISK-ID

The output will contain the image version under the imageReference → id property.
In the below example screenshot, the image version is 3.0.2:

GUI

Using the Compute Engine dashboard, select the CIS Hardened Image instance. The version number will be displayed under the “Storage” → “Boot Disk” section in the “Image” column.

In the below example screenshot, the CIS Hardened Image version number is 1.0.0.11:

CLI

Using Google Cloud Shell, run the following command, replacing MY-INSTANCE-ID and MY-ZONE with their respective values:

gcloud compute instances describe MY-INSTANCE-ID --zone=MY-ZONE --format='value(disks[0].source)' | xargs gcloud compute disks describe --format='value(sourceImage)'

The output will contain the image version at the end of the returned URL: