AWS Trusted Advisor
Hands-On
Demo

- Introduction to AWS Trusted Advisor
- Navigate to AWS Trusted Advisor Dashboard
- Create Security Group Violation
- Create EBS Snapshot Violation
- Create S3 Bucket Permission Violation
- Wait for Trusted Advisor to Show Violations
- Clean Up and Remediation
- Close Security Group Port
- Delete EBS Snapshot
- Delete EBS Volume
- Delete S3 Bucket
- Verify All Remediated in Trusted Advisor Dashboard
Agenda








VPC



IAM Group
Violation 1 : Create Open Port 22 on default security group

Security Groups

Add Rule
Violation 2 : Create EBS Public Snapshot Violation
# Create an EBS volume
VOLUME_ID=$(aws ec2 create-volume \
--volume-type gp3 \
--size 1 \
--availability-zone us-east-1a \
--query 'VolumeId' \
--output text)
# Create a snapshot
SNAPSHOT_ID=$(aws ec2 create-snapshot \
--volume-id $VOLUME_ID \
--description "Test public snapshot" \
--query 'SnapshotId' \
--output text)
# Make snapshot public (VIOLATION #2)
aws ec2 modify-snapshot-attribute \
--snapshot-id $SNAPSHOT_ID \
--attribute createVolumePermission \
--operation-type add \
--group-names all
Violation 3 : Create S3 Bucket Permission Violation
# Create a bucket
BUCKET_NAME="test-bucket-${RANDOM}"
aws s3api create-bucket \
--bucket $BUCKET_NAME \
--region us-east-1
# Make bucket public (VIOLATION #3)
aws s3api put-public-access-block \
--bucket $BUCKET_NAME \
--public-access-block-configuration \
"BlockPublicAcls=false,IgnorePublicAcls=false,BlockPublicPolicy=false,RestrictPublicBuckets=false"
# Add public read policy
cat << EOF > bucket-policy.json
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Sid": "PublicReadGetObject",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Principal": "*",
"Action": "s3:GetObject",
"Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::$BUCKET_NAME/*"
}
]
}
EOF
aws s3api put-bucket-policy \
--bucket $BUCKET_NAME \
--policy file://bucket-policy.json
Wait and Check for Violations in Trusted Advisor Console

Clean Up and Remediation
Close the Security Group Port


Delete the Snapshot

Delete the Volume

Delete the S3 Bucket
All Remediated

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