EC2 Reserved Instances Should Not Have Payment Pending
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To ensure that none of your AWS EC2 Reserved Instance purchases are pending.Risk Level
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Cost OptimisationCompliance Standards
CBPTriage and Remediation
Remediation
Using Console
Using Console
Here are the step-by-step instructions to remediate the misconfiguration “EC2 Reserved Instances Should Not Have Payment Pending” for AWS using the AWS console:
- Log in to your AWS Management Console.
- Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
- Click on the “Reserved Instances” option from the left-hand side menu.
- In the Reserved Instances page, filter the results by selecting “Payment Pending” from the “Payment Status” dropdown.
- Select the Reserved Instance that has the “Payment Pending” status.
- Click on the “Actions” button at the top of the page and select “Modify Reserved Instances”.
- In the “Modify Reserved Instances” page, select the correct payment option and click on “Purchase”.
- Once the payment is completed, the Reserved Instance will be available for use.
- Verify that the Reserved Instance payment status has been updated to “Active” by checking the “Payment Status” column in the Reserved Instances page.
Using CLI
Using CLI
To remediate the misconfiguration of EC2 Reserved Instances having payment pending in AWS using AWS CLI, follow the below steps:Replace This should return an empty response indicating that there are no EC2 Reserved Instances with payment pending.
- Identify the EC2 Reserved Instances that have payment pending by running the following command in AWS CLI:
- Note down the Reserved Instance ID of the EC2 Reserved Instance that has payment pending.
- Cancel the payment pending of the EC2 Reserved Instance by running the following command in AWS CLI:
<ReservedInstanceID> with the Reserved Instance ID noted in Step 2.- Verify that the payment pending of the EC2 Reserved Instance has been cancelled by running the following command in AWS CLI:
- Finally, to avoid such misconfigurations in the future, set up billing alerts in AWS to get notified when there are any payment issues with your Reserved Instances.
Using Python
Using Python
To remediate the misconfiguration “EC2 Reserved Instances Should Not Have Payment Pending” in AWS using Python, you can follow these steps:Note: The above code is just an example to remediate the misconfiguration “EC2 Reserved Instances Should Not Have Payment Pending” in AWS using Python. You may need to modify it based on your specific requirements and use case. Also, make sure to test the code in a non-production environment before running it in production.
- Import the necessary AWS SDK modules in Python. For example, you can use the
boto3module to interact with AWS services.
- Create an EC2 client object using the
boto3.client()method.
- Use the
describe_reserved_instances()method to get a list of all the reserved instances in your account.
- Iterate through the list of reserved instances and check if any of them have a payment pending status.
- If you find any reserved instances with a payment pending status, you can use the
modify_reserved_instances()method to modify the payment option and complete the payment.
- Once the payment is completed, you can verify that the status of the reserved instance has changed to active using the
describe_reserved_instances()method.
- Finally, you can wrap the above code in a function and call it periodically to ensure that all reserved instances in your account have a valid payment status.