Policy: 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.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > Account

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 1 - Identity and Access Management` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

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

GraphQL

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

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0118'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0118'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0118"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r0118"