Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment
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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
MediumAddress
Operational Maturity, Reliability, SecurityCompliance Standards
ISO27001, HIPAATriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the misconfiguration “Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment” in AWS using AWS console, follow the below steps:
- Login to AWS Management Console.
- Navigate to Elastic Beanstalk service.
- Select the environment for which you want to enable the managed platform updates.
- Click on the “Configuration” option from the left-hand menu.
- Scroll down to the “Managed platform updates” section and click on “Edit”.
- Select the “Enable managed platform updates” checkbox.
- Choose the “All platform updates” option from the dropdown.
- Click on the “Apply” button to save the changes.
- Wait for the environment to update with the latest platform version.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration “Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment” for AWS using AWS CLI, follow the below steps:Note: Replace Note: Replace
- Open the terminal and install the AWS CLI if it is not already installed.
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Configure the AWS CLI using the
aws configurecommand by providing the Access Key ID, Secret Access Key, Default region name, and output format. - Execute the below command to enable managed platform updates for the Elastic Beanstalk environment:
<environment-name> with the name of the Elastic Beanstalk environment for which you want to enable managed platform updates.- Verify the changes by executing the below command:
<environment-name> with the name of the Elastic Beanstalk environment for which you have enabled managed platform updates.The output of the above command should be true, which indicates that managed platform updates are enabled for the Elastic Beanstalk environment.Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “Ensure Managed Platform Updates Are Enabled For Elastic Beanstalk Environment” for AWS using Python, you can use the AWS SDK for Python (Boto3) to enable managed platform updates for your Elastic Beanstalk environment. Here are the step-by-step instructions:This code will loop through all the Elastic Beanstalk environments in your account, check if managed platform updates are already enabled, and enable them if they are not. Note that you will need to replace
- Install Boto3:
- Import the Boto3 library and create an Elastic Beanstalk client:
- Retrieve the list of environments in your account:
- Loop through the list of environments and enable managed platform updates for each one:
your_application_name with the name of your Elastic Beanstalk application.