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Ensure that all your Amazon Elastic Beanstalk (EB) application environments have platform updates enabled in order to receive bug fixes, software updates and new features. Managed platform updates perform immutable environment updates.

Risk Level

Medium

Address

Operational Maturity, Reliability, Security

Compliance Standards

ISO27001, HIPAA

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration “Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment” in AWS using AWS console, follow the below steps:

  1. Login to AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to Elastic Beanstalk service.
  3. Select the environment for which you want to enable the managed platform updates.
  4. Click on the “Configuration” option from the left-hand menu.
  5. Scroll down to the “Managed platform updates” section and click on “Edit”.
  6. Select the “Enable managed platform updates” checkbox.
  7. Choose the “All platform updates” option from the dropdown.
  8. Click on the “Apply” button to save the changes.
  9. Wait for the environment to update with the latest platform version.

By following the above steps, you will be able to remediate the misconfiguration “Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment” for AWS using AWS console.

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