Reserved Instance Lease Expiration In The Next 7 Days
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Lists all EC2 reserved instances expiring in the next 7 days.Risk Level
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Cost OptimisationCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
To remediate the “Reserved Instance Lease Expiration In The Next 7 Days” misconfiguration for AWS, you can follow the below steps:
- Log in to your AWS Management Console.
- Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
- Click on the “Reserved Instances” link in the left-hand menu.
- In the “Reserved Instances” page, you will see a list of your reserved instances.
- Look for the instances that have lease expiration in the next 7 days.
- Select the instance by clicking on the checkbox in front of it.
- Click on the “Modify Reserved Instances” button.
- In the “Modify Reserved Instances” page, you can choose to either modify the instance or exchange it for a new one.
- If you choose to modify the instance, you can change the instance type, availability zone, or platform.
- If you choose to exchange the instance, you can select a new instance type, availability zone, or platform.
- Once you have made your changes, click on the “Preview” button to review your changes.
- If you are satisfied with your changes, click on the “Modify Reserved Instances” button to apply the changes.
Using CLI
Using CLI
The Reserved Instance Lease Expiration In The Next 7 Days issue in AWS can be remediated by modifying the reservation period of the instance. Here are the steps to remediate this issue using AWS CLI:Note: Replace Note: Replace
- Open the AWS CLI on your local machine.
- Run the following command to get a list of all the reserved instances that have an expiration date within the next 7 days:
<region> with the region where your instances are located.- Identify the instance that requires remediation.
- Run the following command to modify the reservation period:
<reservation_id> with the ID of the reserved instance that requires remediation and <count> with the number of instances that you want to reserve. Also, ensure that the End date is set to at least 1 year from the current date.- Verify that the reservation has been modified by running the first command again and checking that the expiration date is now more than 7 days away.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the issue of Reserved Instance Lease Expiration in the next 7 days in AWS using Python, follow these steps:
- Import the necessary AWS SDK boto3:
- Create an EC2 client object:
- Use the describe_reserved_instances() method to get the list of all reserved instances:
- Loop through the list of reserved instances and check if any of them are expiring within the next 7 days:
- To remediate the issue, you can either renew the reserved instance or purchase a new one. To renew the reserved instance, use the modify_reserved_instances() method:
- Alternatively, you can purchase a new reserved instance using the purchase_reserved_instances_offering() method:
- Finally, you can schedule a Lambda function to run this script periodically and remediate the issue automatically.