AWS imagebuilder: CIS hardening components now require AWS Marketplace subscription

Service: imagebuilder · 2026-10-15 · Documentation low

File: imagebuilder/latest/userguide/manage-recipes.md

Summary

Updates the compatibility requirement so CIS hardening components require a subscription to the component in AWS Marketplace instead of a CIS-published parent image.

Security assessment

The line concerns CIS hardening components, which are security-hardening artifacts, so it is security-adjacent guidance, but it only changes a licensing/subscription requirement rather than fixing a specific weakness.

Evidence

  * CIS hardening components require a subscription to the component in AWS Marketplace.

Diff

diff --git a/imagebuilder/latest/userguide/manage-recipes.md b/imagebuilder/latest/userguide/manage-recipes.md
index e657597..339f007 100644
--- a//imagebuilder/latest/userguide/manage-recipes.md
+++ b//imagebuilder/latest/userguide/manage-recipes.md
@@ -126 +126 @@ Components must also meet the following compatibility requirements:
-  * CIS hardening components require a CIS-published parent image.
+  * CIS hardening components require a subscription to the component in AWS Marketplace.