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Guide to the Secure Configuration of Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

Rules, Groups, and Values defined within the XCCDF Benchmark

  • Ensure that application Namespaces have Network Policies defined.

    Use network policies to isolate traffic in your cluster network.
    Rule High Severity
  • Ensure Network Policy is Enabled

    Use Network Policy to restrict pod to pod traffic within a cluster and segregate workloads.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Encrypt Traffic to Load Balancers and Workloads

    Encrypt traffic to HTTPS load balancers using TLS certificates.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Restrict Access to the Control Plane Endpoint

    Enable Endpoint Private Access to restrict access to the cluster's control plane to only an allowlist of authorized IPs.
    Rule Unknown Severity
  • Ensure Private Endpoint Access

    Disable access to the Kubernetes API from outside the node network if it is not required.
    Rule Unknown Severity

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