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Ensure AWS Lambda functions have tracing enabled

AWS Lambda functions should have TracingConfig enabled since it activates the AWS X-Ray service. AWS X-Ray service collects information on requests that a specific function performed. It reduces the investigation, debugging and diagnostics time and effort. The value can be either PassThrough or Active. If PassThrough, Lambda will only trace the request from an upstream service if it contains a tracing header with 'sampled=1'. If Active, Lambda will respect any tracing header it receives from an upstream service. If no tracing header is received, Lambda will call X-Ray for a tracing decision. It is recommended to use 'Active'.

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Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: AWS Lambda
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.OPE.07
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Compute

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Lambda should not have tracingConfig.mode='PassThrough'

REMEDIATION

From Portal

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon Lambda console.
  2. Open the function you want to modify.
  3. Click the Configuration tab.
  4. Open the Monitoring and operations tools on the left side.
  5. Click Edit and enable Active tracing for AWS X-ray.
  6. Click Save.

From TF

resource "aws_lambda_function" "active" {
	tracing_config {
		-  mode = "PassThrough"
		+  mode = "Active"
	}
}

From Command Line

aws lambda update-function-configuration --function-name lambda_function_name --tracing-config Mode=Active

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/services-xray.html
  2. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs
  3. https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/lambda/update-function-configuration.html

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