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CloudWatch log metric filter and alarm are not set for VPC changes Affecting CloudWatch service in AWS

Severity

0.0
medium
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10
    Severity Framework
    Snyk CCSS
    Rule category
    Monitoring / Accounts Monitoring

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-CC-00116
  • credit Snyk Research Team
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Description

Monitoring changes to VPCs helps ensure that VPC traffic flow is not being negatively impacted.

How to fix?

Create an aws_cloudwatch_log_metric_filter and aws_cloudwatch_metric_alarm with an appropriate pattern attribute set for an aws_cloudwatch_log_group and aws_cloudtrail set of resources.

Use the following pattern attribute set:

$.eventName=CreateVpc
$.eventName=DeleteVpc
$.eventName=ModifyVpcAttribute
$.eventName=AcceptVpcPeeringConnection
$.eventName=CreateVpcPeeringConnection
$.eventName=DeleteVpcPeeringConnection
$.eventName=RejectVpcPeeringConnection
$.eventName=AttachClassicLinkVpc
$.eventName=DetachClassicLinkVpc
$.eventName=DisableVpcClassicLink
$.eventName=EnableVpcClassicLink