AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional — Question 109
A security team is concerned that a developer can unintentionally attach an Elastic IP address to an Amazon EC2 instance in production. No developer should be allowed to attach an Elastic IP address to an instance. The security team must be notified if any production server has an Elastic IP address at any time.
How can this task be automated?
Answer options
- A. Use Amazon Athena to query AWS CloudTrail logs to check for any associate-address attempts. Create an AWS Lambda function to disassociate the Elastic IP address from the instance, and alert the security team.
- B. Attach an IAM policy to the developers' IAM group to deny associate-address permissions. Create a custom AWS Config rule to check whether an Elastic IP address is associated with any instance tagged as production, and alert the security team.
- C. Ensure that all IAM groups associated with developers do not have associate-address permissions. Create a scheduled AWS Lambda function to check whether an Elastic IP address is associated with any instance tagged as production, and alert the security team if an instance has an Elastic IP address associated with it.
- D. Create an AWS Config rule to check that all production instances have EC2 IAM roles that include deny associate-address permissions. Verify whether there is an Elastic IP address associated with any instance, and alert the security team if an instance has an Elastic IP address associated with it.
Correct answer: B
Explanation
Option B is the correct answer because it combines a policy to prevent developers from associating Elastic IP addresses with a monitoring mechanism to alert the security team when a violation occurs. Options A and C involve checking for associations after they happen, which does not prevent the issue. Option D focuses on IAM roles rather than directly denying permissions to the developers, making it less effective for this specific requirement.