Instances outside of Brazilian region

This rule identifies all the AWS instances outside Brazilian regions

Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: Amazon EC2 Instance
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.AS.06
Covered by Spectral: No
Category: Compute

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Instance should have region like '%sa_east_1%'

REMEDIATION

From Portal

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
  2. On the top right panel, just next to support icon you can choose the region where you want to launch your instance. For Brazilian region choose "sa-east-1".
  3. Choose Launch Instance as per your configuration.

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html

Amazon EC2 Instance

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides secure, resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale cloud computing easier for developers.

Compliance Frameworks

  • AWS LGPD regulation
  • CloudGuard AWS All Rules Ruleset