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CIS Hardened RHEL on Azure & AWS

RHEL hardened to the CIS Level 1 server profile with SELinux enforcing and an OpenSCAP scan result shipped alongside. Built and maintained by WIEWAVE for Azure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux.

CIS Hardened RHEL at a glance

Key facts about CIS Hardened RHEL
Built & maintained byWIEWAVE
CategorySecurity
Operating systemsRed Hat Enterprise Linux, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux
MarketplacesAzure Marketplace and AWS Marketplace
Offer typesPublic listing, with private offers on request

Availability by marketplace

Where CIS Hardened RHEL is published
MarketplaceStatus
Azure MarketplacePublished
AWS MarketplacePublished
Google Cloud MarketplaceAvailable on request

Need it on another marketplace, or as a private offer for your organisation? cloud@wiewave.com

Operating systems

CIS Hardened RHEL is built on 3 distributions

Each image follows its distribution's own provisioning model, package manager and security tooling — not one build relabelled several times.

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

    RHEL 8 and 9 images, including BYOS and pay-as-you-go licensing models on each marketplace.

  • AlmaLinux

    The 1:1 RHEL-compatible rebuild, and the default landing spot for teams migrating off CentOS Linux.

  • Rocky Linux

    Enterprise-grade RHEL compatibility with a community governance model, on 8 and 9 streams.

How it's built

How WIEWAVE builds and maintains this image

The same four steps behind every offer we've published, including the hardening and CIS Benchmark checks every build goes through.

  1. 01

    Scoped

    The distribution, licensing model and target marketplaces are agreed before anything is built.

  2. 02

    Built & hardened as code

    Packer templates, Ansible provisioning and a pinned package set — then hardened, scanned and checked against the CIS Benchmark for its distribution.

  3. 03

    Certified & published

    Taken through each cloud's own certification pipeline before it goes live on the marketplace.

  4. 04

    Maintained

    Rebuilt on the upstream security cadence and re-published, with old versions retired without breaking deployments.

FAQ

CIS Hardened RHEL: common questions

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Need CIS Hardened RHEL customised, or on another cloud?

Tell us the distribution, the marketplace and the commercial model — we'll build, certify and publish it as a public listing or a private offer.