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Ensure that EC2 is EBS optimized

An Amazon EBS–optimized instance uses an optimized configuration stack and provides additional, dedicated capacity for Amazon EBS I/O. This optimization provides the best performance for your EBS volumes by minimizing contention between Amazon EBS I/O and other traffic from your instance.

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Risk Level: Low
Cloud Entity: Amazon EC2 Instance
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.CFT.OPE.11
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Compute

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AWS_EC2_Instance should have EbsOptimized=true

REMEDIATION

From CFT
Set AWS::EC2::Instance EbsOptimized property to true

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-properties-ec2-instance.html#cfn-ec2-instance-ebsoptimized
  2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ebs-optimized.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 CloudFormation ruleset

Updated about 1 year ago