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Hardened images for IBM Cloud.

Hardened images for IBM Cloud VSI, VPC and IBM Cloud for Financial Services — mapped to the FS Cloud control framework.

Why on IBM Cloud

The same hardened baseline, native to IBM Cloud.

Cloudgenics images on IBM Cloud 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 IBM Cloud 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 · IBM Cloud

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 IBM Cloud.

IBM Cloud Multi-Zone Regions

Global

IBM Cloud for Financial Services

Regulated multi-zone

IBM Cloud Sao Paulo / Toronto / Tokyo

Regional

IBM Cloud Sydney

au-syd

IBM Cloud Frankfurt / London

eu-de / eu-gb

IBM Cloud Madrid

eu-es

Native integrations

Plug into the IBM Cloud services your teams already use.

IBM Cloud Catalog

Listed in the public catalog and via private accounts.

Hyper Protect Crypto Services

FIPS 140-2 Level 4 HSM-backed keys for the most sensitive workloads.

IBM QRadar

Telemetry into QRadar SIEM with mapped use-cases.

IBM Activity Tracker

Audit and access events tracked for compliance evidence.

FS Cloud Controls

Mapped to IBM Cloud for Financial Services control framework.

Schematics (Terraform)

Ready-to-use modules for hardened image deployment.

Deployment

From marketplace to production in three steps.

Subscribe to the Cloudgenics image family inside the IBM Cloud 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.