Determine if the number of Amazon EC2 instances provisioned in your AWS cloud account has reached the limit quota established by your organization for the workload deployed. By default, Trend Micro Cloud One™ – Conformity sets a threshold value of 50 for the maximum number of provisioned EC2 instances, however, you have the capability to adjust this threshold based on your internal requirements upon enabling this rule.
This rule can help you with the following compliance standards:
- APRA
- MAS
For further details on compliance standards supported by Conformity, see here.
This rule can help you work with the AWS Well-Architected Framework.
This rule resolution is part of the Conformity Security & Compliance tool for AWS.
Monitoring and setting limits for the maximum number of Amazon EC2 instances provisioned in your AWS cloud account will help you to better manage your compute power and prevent unexpected charges on your AWS bill in case of auto-scaling misconfiguration or large DDOS attacks.
Note: The threshold for the maximum number of EC2 instances per AWS account set for this conformity rule is 50 (default value).
Audit
To determine the total number of Amazon EC2 instances available in your AWS cloud account, perform the following actions:
Remediation / Resolution
To request AWS to limit the number of Amazon EC2 instances that you can launch within your AWS cloud account, perform the following actions:
Note: Creating a support case to request a limit for the number of EC2 instances using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) is not currently supported.References
- AWS Documentation:
- Amazon EC2 FAQs
- AWS service quotas
- Instance Types
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- ec2
- describe-account-attributes
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EC2 Instance Counts
Risk Level: Medium