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Your account should not reach the limit set by AWS for the number of allocated Elastic IPs.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Operational Maturity

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, AWSWAF

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

Sure, here are the step by step instructions to remediate the EC2-Classic Elastic IP Address Limit Should Not Be Reached misconfiguration in AWS using AWS console:

  1. Open the AWS Management Console and sign in to your AWS account.
  2. Navigate to the EC2 dashboard.
  3. In the left-hand menu, select “Elastic IPs”.
  4. Check the “Limit” column to see how many Elastic IPs you have already allocated.
  5. If you have reached the limit, you will need to release some of the Elastic IPs that are not currently in use. To do this, select the Elastic IP that you want to release and click on the “Release addresses” button.
  6. If you need to increase the limit, you can request a limit increase by clicking on the “Request limit increase” button.
  7. In the “Request to increase limit” dialog box, fill in the required information such as the new limit and the reason for the increase.
  8. Click on the “Submit” button to submit your request.
  9. AWS will review your request and respond to you via email within a few business days.

That’s it! By following these steps, you should be able to remediate the EC2-Classic Elastic IP Address Limit Should Not Be Reached misconfiguration in AWS using AWS console.

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