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Managed instances are regional for availability purposes. Instances in a single zone creates a single point of failure for all systems in the VPC. It is recommended that all instances should be created as Regional to ensure proper failover.

Risk Level

Low

Address

Reliability, Security

Compliance Standards

HIPAA, NIST, HITRUST, SOC2, NISTCSF, PCIDSS

Triage and Remediation

Remediation

In GCP, the equivalent of Multi AZ in AWS is the “Regional Managed Instance Group”. To remediate the misconfiguration of instances not being Multi AZ in GCP, you can follow these steps:

  1. Open the GCP console and go to the Compute Engine section.
  2. Click on “Instance groups” in the left-hand menu.
  3. Click on the name of the instance group that you want to make Multi AZ.
  4. Click on the “Edit” button at the top of the page.
  5. In the “Autohealing” section, select “On” for “Enable autohealing”.
  6. In the “Location” section, select the region where you want the instance group to be Multi AZ.
  7. In the “Size” section, set the “Number of instances” to the desired number of instances for the Multi AZ group.
  8. Click on the “Save” button at the bottom of the page.

Once you have completed these steps, your instance group will be Multi AZ and will automatically heal and distribute instances across multiple zones within the selected region.

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