Ensure EC2 instances have termination protection enabled
Termination protection prevents accidental termination of critical EC2 instances through the console, CLI, or API.
Security Impact
Without termination protection, instances can be accidentally terminated, causing service outages.
How to Remediate
Enable termination protection on critical instances: aws ec2 modify-instance-attribute --instance-id INSTANCE_ID --disable-api-termination
Affected Resources
Compliance Frameworks
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Check Details
- Check ID
- aws-ec2-14
- Service
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)
- Category
- Instance Configuration
- Severity
- LOW
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