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Medium EC2 · regional

EC2 VPC Block Public Access settings should block internet gateway traffic

Verifies that VPC Block Public Access is on in this Region in Bidirectional or Ingress-only mode. It is one switch per account and Region that blocks internet gateway traffic to the Region's VPCs whatever their route tables, security groups and network ACLs allow, except for the VPCs and subnets you exclude.

service
EC2
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

VPC → Settings → Block public access → Edit public access settings

With the AWS CLI

aws ec2 modify-vpc-block-public-access-options --internet-gateway-block-mode block-bidirectional --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_vpc_block_public_access_options" "this" {
  internet_gateway_block_mode = "block-bidirectional"
}

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