Control: AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management > 1.18 - Ensure IAM instance roles are used for AWS resource access from instances

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 2

AWS access from within AWS instances can be done by either encoding AWS keys into AWS API calls or by assigning the instance to a role which has an appropriate permissions policy for the required access. "AWS Access" means accessing the APIs of AWS in order to access AWS resources or manage AWS account resources.

Resource Types

This control targets the following resource types:

AWS > EC2 > Instance

Policies

This control type relies on these other policies when running actions:

In Your Workspace

Developers

Control Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0118

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v0714

GraphQL

query controlType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0118") { … }

query controls(filter: "controlTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0118'") { … }

CLI

Get Controls

turbot graphql controls --filter "controlTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/control/types/r0118"