Amazon Linux 2023 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Failure to a known state can address safety or security in accordance with the mission/business needs of the organization. Failure to a known secure state helps prevent a loss of confidentiality, integrity, or availability in the event of a failure of the information system or a component of the system.

Preserving operating system state information helps to facilitate operating system restart and return to the operational mode of the organization with least disruption to mission/business processes.

Verify Amazon Linux 2023 is configured so that "systemd-journald" is active with the following command:

$ systemctl is-active systemd-journald active

If the systemd-journald service is not active, this is a finding.

Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to enable the systemd-journald service with the following command:

$ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald