Apache Cassandra - Hardened NoSQL Wide-Column Database
Lynxroute · Cybersecurity & IT
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Evidence tier Source Confirmed · 4 captures on record
What the publisher says
As described on AWS Marketplace.
This is a repackaged software product wherein additional charges apply for hardening, security configuration, and support.
WHAT IS APACHE CASSANDRA
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Apache Cassandra is an open-source, distributed NoSQL wide-column database built for high availability and linear scalability with no single point of failure. It runs as a JVM service (Eclipse Temurin 17) and is queried with CQL (Cassandra Query Language) over a native binary protocol on port 9042. Cassandra offers tunable consistency, a masterless peer-to-peer architecture, partitioned wide-column data model with clustering keys, secondary indexes, materialized views, lightweight transactions (Paxos), TTL on data, and time-to-live driven compaction. Data is durably persisted to local disk as SSTables with a commit log, hints, and saved caches. CQL drivers exist for Java, Python, Node.js, Go, C#, and many more. This image ships a single-node deployment, ready to scale into a cluster. Apache-2.0 license - the vendor-neutral upstream distribution, distinct from any commercial Cassandra product.
WHAT THIS AMI ADDS
Security hardening:
- Default cassandra/cassandra superuser password rotated to a strong random value at first boot
- PasswordAuthenticator and CassandraAuthorizer enabled - no anonymous access
- Native TLS (client encryption) required on port 9042; self-signed certificate generated per instance at first boot
- CQL (9042) and JMX (7199) bind to 127.0.0.1 only - not exposed to the network by default
- UFW firewall - only SSH (22) open; 9042 blocked externally
- fail2ban, AppArmor
- CVE scan - every image is scanned for vulnerabilities before release
OS hardening (CIS Level 1):
- CIS Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Level 1 benchmark applied via ansible-lockdown
- auditd, SSH hardening, Kernel hardening, IMDSv2 enforced
Compliance artifacts:
- SBOM - CycloneDX 1.6 at /etc/lynxroute/sbom.json
- CIS Conformance Report at /etc/lynxroute/cis-report.html
- CIS Tailored Profile at /usr/share/doc/lynxroute/CIS_TAILORED_PROFILE.md
Highlights
Highlighted by the publisher on AWS Marketplace.
Cassandra security baked in: default superuser password rotated at first boot, password auth + authorization enabled, native TLS required on 9042, CQL and JMX bound to localhost.
CIS Level 1 hardened Ubuntu 24.04 LTS: auditd, fail2ban, AppArmor, SSH key-only, IMDSv2 enforced. CVE-scanned before every release. SBOM (CycloneDX) and CIS Conformance Report included.
Distributed NoSQL wide-column database: CQL, tunable consistency, masterless scale-out, single-node ready to cluster. Apache-2.0 license - fully auditable, no vendor lock-in.
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Compliance
- FedRAMPConfirmedNot listed90%, registry-checkedNo FedRAMP Marketplace entry matched this vendor's domain, checked 2026-08-27registry recordas observed 2026-08-27
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Vendor
External enrichment · as of 2026-08-29
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Refund terms
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We do not offer refunds for this product. AWS infrastructure charges (EC2, EBS, data transfer) are billed separately by AWS and are not refundable by us.
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