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Cis AWS Compute 12.2

DevOps & Security
cis-aws-compute-12.2

Cis AWS Compute 12.2 is an Agent Skill for devops & security published in the CyberStrikeus/CyberStrike repository on GitHub: a SKILL.md instruction file an AI agent can load to do this task.

Ensure Cloudwatch Lambda insights is enabled

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Ensure Cloudwatch Lambda insights is enabled

Description

Ensure that Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights is enabled for your Amazon Lambda functions for enhanced monitoring.

Rationale

Amazon CloudWatch Lambda Insights allows you to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize your Lambda functions. The service collects system-level metrics and summarizes diagnostic information to help you identify issues with your Lambda functions and resolve them as soon as possible. CloudWatch Lambda Insights collects system-level metrics and emits a single performance log event for every invocation of that Lambda function.

Impact

Enabling CloudWatch Lambda Insights may incur additional CloudWatch costs. When you enable the feature using the AWS Management Console, Amazon Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role.

Audit Procedure

Using AWS Console

  1. Login to AWS Console using https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/
  2. Click Functions.
  3. Click on the name of the function.
  4. Click on the Configuration tab.
  5. Click on 'Monitoring and operations tools'.
  6. In the Monitoring and operations tools section check the Enhanced monitoring.
  7. If set to Not enabled, refer to the remediation below.
  8. Repeat steps 2-7 for each Lambda function within the current region.
  9. Then repeat the Audit process for all other regions.

Using AWS CLI

  1. Run aws lambda list-functions
aws lambda list-functions --output table --query "Functions[*].FunctionName"

This command will provide a table titled ListFunction

  1. Run aws lambda get-function
aws lambda get-function --function-name "name_of_function" --query "'Configuration.Layers[*].Arn"

This command should provide the requested ARN.

  1. If the list of ARNs does not contain the CloudWatch Lambda Insights extension ARN, i.e. arn:aws:lambda:<aws-region>:12345678910:layer:LambdaInsightsExtension:<version>, the Enhanced Monitoring feature is not enabled. Refer to the remediation below.

Expected Result

Each Lambda function should have the CloudWatch Lambda Insights extension ARN listed in its layers, indicating Enhanced Monitoring is enabled.

Remediation

Using AWS Console

  1. Login to AWS Console using https://console.aws.amazon.com/lambda/
  2. Click Functions.
  3. Click on the name of the function.
  4. Click on the Configuration tab
  5. Click on 'Monitoring and operations tools'.
  6. In the Monitoring and operations tools section click Edit to update the monitoring configuration
  7. In the CloudWatch Lambda Insights section click the Enhanced monitoring button to enable. ***Note - When you enable the feature using the AWS Management Console, Amazon Lambda adds the required permissions to your function's execution role.
  8. Click Save
  9. Repeat steps 2-8 for each Lambda function within the current region that fails the Audit.
  10. Then repeat the Audit process for all other regions.

Using AWS CLI

N/A - This control is Console-based remediation only.

Default Value

CloudWatch Lambda Insights is not enabled by default.

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/welcome.html

CIS Controls

Controls VersionControlIG 1IG 2IG 3
v88.2 Collect Audit Logs - Collect audit logs. Ensure that logging, per the enterprise's audit log management process, has been enabled across enterprise assets.xxx
v76.2 Activate audit logging - Ensure that local logging has been enabled on all systems and networking devices.xxx

Profile

Level 1 | Manual