Amazon's virtual machine offering. Defender for Cloud can onboard EC2 instances automatically, installing Azure Arc and Defender components, when its AWS connector has Defender for Servers turned on.
Also called EC2.
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Terms in this definition
- VM
A computer implemented entirely in software, having virtual hardware and its own guest OS; ESX hosts run it and vCenter manages it.
- Azure Arc
Azure service for managing servers that live outside Azure without moving them, by installing the Azure Connected Machine agent; it does not migrate anything.
- AWS
Short for Amazon Web Services, Amazon's public cloud. Linking AWS accounts to Microsoft Defender for Cloud brings them under its recommendations and protections.
- Microsoft Defender for Servers
Covers Arc-enabled servers and Azure VMs in Defender for Cloud. Plan 1 brings integration with Defender for Endpoint; Plan 2 goes further with agentless scanning, file integrity monitoring and alerts from Defender for DNS.
Related terms
- AWS connector (Defender for Cloud)
Connector linking Defender for Cloud to Amazon Web Services, finished by running a generated CloudFormation template on the AWS side. If Defender for Servers is enabled, it provisions Azure Arc onto EC2 instances automatically.