id: nat-gateway-use info: name: Managed NAT Gateway Usage author: princechaddha severity: medium description: | Ensure the use of Amazon Managed NAT Gateway for better availability and bandwidth in VPC networks instead of self-managed NAT instances. impact: | Using self-managed NAT instances can lead to single points of failure and potential bandwidth bottlenecks. remediation: | Replace NAT instances with Amazon Managed NAT Gateway to ensure high availability and scalability in your VPC network. reference: - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/vpc-nat-gateway.html metadata: max-request: 2 tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,vpc,aws-cloud-config variables: region: "us-east-1" flow: | code(1) for(let VPCIds of iterate(template.vpcid)){ set("vpc", VPCIds) code(2) } self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws ec2 describe-vpcs --region $region --query 'Vpcs[*].VpcId' --output json extractors: - type: json name: vpcid internal: true json: - '.[]' - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws ec2 describe-nat-gateways --region $region --filter "Name=vpc-id,Values=$vpc" "Name=state,Values=available" --query 'NatGateways' matchers: - type: word words: - "[]" extractors: - type: dsl dsl: - 'vpc + " VPC is not using Managed NAT Gateways"' # digest: 4a0a00473045022100f15845608859adbcb7bc461874985337e016b6bcb1d26f443fd2a91ff851c9340220694f547d8ddea40af0456426f61944e9ca77f5cffbe76e991099683455728858:922c64590222798bb761d5b6d8e72950