Amazon Linux 2023 systemd-journald service must be enabled.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-274000	SRG-OS-000269-GPOS-00103	AZLX-23-000135	SV-274000r1119988_rule	2025-11-20	1

Description
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.

Description

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.

ℹ️ Check
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.

✔️ Fix
Configure Amazon Linux 2023 to enable the systemd-journald service with the following command: $ sudo systemctl enable --now systemd-journald