Products · Azure

Hardened images for Microsoft Azure.

Hardened images and VHDs published to Azure Compute Gallery and the Azure Marketplace — including Azure Government, Azure China and Azure Operator regions.

Why on Azure

The same hardened baseline, native to Azure.

Cloudgenics images on Azure are built and signed inside the platform — no shadow accounts, no third-party staging. Images publish into the regions you specify and integrate with native services like the platform's marketplace, KMS, secrets store and observability stack.

CIS Level 2, DISA STIG and Essential Eight controls applied at bake
Signed images with SLSA Level 3 provenance and SBOMs
Native integration with Azure key management and audit logs
Continuous patching with < 4 hour critical CVE SLA
Pre-mapped to 16+ global compliance frameworks

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Image catalogue · Azure

What ships out of the box

Linux: RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 20.04/22.04/24.04, Oracle Linux, SUSE
Windows Server 2019, 2022 and 2025 Core / Desktop Experience
Container host variants for Kubernetes and OpenShift workloads
Database hardened variants (PostgreSQL, MySQL, MS SQL, Oracle)
Bastion / jump-host hardened variants

Regions & sovereign coverage

Sovereign, government and commercial regions on Azure.

Azure Commercial — Global

60+ regions

Azure Government (US)

USGov Virginia / Arizona / Texas

Azure UAE

UAE North / UAE Central

Azure Australia

Australia East / Central / Central 2

Azure Operator (Telco)

Edge zones

Azure Europe

West / North Europe / Sweden Central

Native integrations

Plug into the Azure services your teams already use.

Azure Marketplace

Standard listing plus Private Offer support for enterprise procurement.

Azure Compute Gallery

Shared image gallery distribution with region replication.

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

CSPM and CWPP integration — image findings flow into Secure Score.

Microsoft Sentinel

Image telemetry and audit evidence stream natively into Sentinel workspaces.

Azure Key Vault

Customer-managed keys and HSM-backed boundaries for compliance modes.

Azure Policy

Pre-built initiatives map Cloudgenics image controls to Azure Policy assignments.

Deployment

From marketplace to production in three steps.

Subscribe to the Cloudgenics image family inside the Azure marketplace or via private offer for your organisation.

Deploy

Launch instances from the hardened image using your existing infrastructure-as-code tooling — Terraform, Pulumi, Ansible or native CLI.

Operate

Telemetry streams to your SIEM; patches and configuration drift fixes ship continuously from the Cloudgenics control plane.