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AWS EC2 Reserved Instances should be fully utilized.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Cost Optimisation

Compliance Standards

AWSWAF

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

To remediate the misconfiguration of unused reserved instances in AWS, you can follow the below steps:

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console.
  2. Navigate to the EC2 Dashboard.
  3. Click on the “Reserved Instances” option from the left-hand menu.
  4. Identify the unused reserved instances that need to be remediated.
  5. Select the unused reserved instances that you want to modify.
  6. Click on the “Actions” button and select “Modify Reserved Instances”.
  7. In the “Modify Reserved Instances” window, select the “Apply to” option and choose the instances that you want to apply the reserved instances to.
  8. Click on the “Add to queue” button to add the modification to the queue.
  9. Review the changes and click on the “Modify Reserved Instances” button to apply the changes.

Once the changes are applied, the unused reserved instances will be applied to the selected instances, and the misconfiguration of unused reserved instances will be remediated.

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