Security Hub controls for Elastic Beanstalk

These AWS Security Hub controls evaluate the AWS Elastic Beanstalk service and resources.

These controls may not be available in all AWS Regions. For more information, see Availability of controls by Region.

[ElasticBeanstalk.1] Elastic Beanstalk environments should have enhanced health reporting enabled

Related requirements: NIST.800-53.r5 CA-7,NIST.800-53.r5 SI-2

Category: Detect > Detection services > Application monitoring

Severity: Low

Resource type: AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment

AWS Config rule: beanstalk-enhanced-health-reporting-enabled

Schedule type: Change triggered

Parameters: None

This control checks whether enhanced health reporting is enabled for your AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments.

Elastic Beanstalk enhanced health reporting enables a more rapid response to changes in the health of the underlying infrastructure. These changes could result in a lack of availability of the application.

Elastic Beanstalk enhanced health reporting provides a status descriptor to gauge the severity of the identified issues and identify possible causes to investigate. The Elastic Beanstalk health agent, included in supported Amazon Machine Images (AMIs), evaluates logs and metrics of environment EC2 instances.

For additional information, see Enhanced health reporting and monitoring in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

Remediation

For instructions on how to enable enhanced health reporting, see Enabling enhanced health reporting using the Elastic Beanstalk console in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

[ElasticBeanstalk.2] Elastic Beanstalk managed platform updates should be enabled

Related requirements: NIST.800-53.r5 SI-2,NIST.800-53.r5 SI-2(2),NIST.800-53.r5 SI-2(4),NIST.800-53.r5 SI-2(5), PCI DSS v4.0.1/6.3.3

Category: Identify > Vulnerability, patch, and version management

Severity: High

Resource type: AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment

AWS Config rule: elastic-beanstalk-managed-updates-enabled

Schedule type: Change triggered

Parameters:

Parameter	Description	Type	Allowed custom values	Security Hub default value
UpdateLevel	Version update level	Enum	minor, patch	No default value

This control checks whether managed platform updates are enabled for an Elastic Beanstalk environment. The control fails if no managed platform updates are enabled. By default, the control passes if any type of platform update is enabled. Optionally, you can provide a custom parameter value to require a specific update level.

Enabling managed platform updates ensures that the latest available platform fixes, updates, and features for the environment are installed. Keeping up to date with patch installation is an important step in securing systems.

Remediation

To enable managed platform updates, see To configure managed platform updates under Managed platform updates in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.

[ElasticBeanstalk.3] Elastic Beanstalk should stream logs to CloudWatch

Related requirements: PCI DSS v4.0.1/10.4.2

Category: Identify > Logging

Severity: High

Resource type: AWS::ElasticBeanstalk::Environment

AWS Config rule: elastic-beanstalk-logs-to-cloudwatch

Schedule type: Change triggered

Parameters:

Parameter	Description	Type	Allowed custom values	Security Hub default value
RetentionInDays	Number of days to keep log events before expiration	Enum	1, 3, 5, 7, 14, 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180, 365 , 400, 545, 731, 1827, 3653	No default value

This control checks whether an Elastic Beanstalk environment is configured to send logs to CloudWatch Logs. The control fails if an Elastic Beanstalk environment isn't configured to send logs to CloudWatch Logs. Optionally, you can provide a custom value for the RetentionInDays parameter if you want the control to pass only if logs are retained for the specified number of days before expiration.

CloudWatch helps you collect and monitor various metrics for your applications and infrastructure resources. You can also use CloudWatch to configure alarm actions based on specific metrics. We recommend integrating Elastic Beanstalk with CloudWatch to get increased visibility into your Elastic Beanstalk environment. Elastic Beanstalk logs include the eb-activity.log, access logs from the environment nginx or Apache proxy server, and logs that are specific to an environment.

Remediation

To integrate Elastic Beanstalk with CloudWatch Logs, see Streaming instance logs to CloudWatch Logs in the AWS Elastic Beanstalk Developer Guide.