Policy: AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management > 1.18 - Ensure IAM instance roles are used for AWS resource access from instances (Manual)

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 2 (Not Scored)

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 policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Account

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management

Attestation

Controls

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management using attestation`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management using attestation` `Skip` `Check: Level 2 (Not Scored) using attestation`

Schema Type

string

Default

Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management using attestation

Valid Values [YAML]

Per AWS > CIS v1.4 > 1 - Identity and Access Management using attestation

Skip

Check: Level 2 (Not Scored) using attestation

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v0719

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv1-4#/policy/types/r0118"