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Best practices and references below are based on published guidance from the cloud service provider and may reference native capabilities the cloud service provider offers. If you are not using the native security capabilities, the same security requirement can be met using other security capabilities your organization utilizes

Asset Inventory

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Cluster

Tags
​Terraform​
Cluster Name
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::PrimaryTaskSet

Cluster
Task Set Id
Service

AWS::ECS::Service

Cluster
​Terraform​
Load Balancers-Container Name
​Terraform​
Load Balancers-Load Balancer Name
​Terraform​
Load Balancers-Target Group Arn
​Terraform​
Service Name
​Terraform​
Service Registries
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Container Name
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Registry Arn
​Terraform​
Tags
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Depends On-Container Name
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Hostname
​Terraform​
Volumes-Efsvolume Configuration
​Terraform​
Efsvolume Configuration-Filesystem Id
​Terraform​
Tags
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Cluster
​Terraform​
Load Balancers-Container Name
​Terraform​
Load Balancers-Load Balancer Name
​Terraform​
Service
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Container Name
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Registry Arn
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::CapacityProvider

Name
​Terraform​
Tags
​Terraform​
​

Logging

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Cluster

Cluster Settings
​Terraform​
Cluster Settings-Name
​Terraform​
Cluster Settings-Value
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Firelens Configuration-Type
​Terraform​
Firelens Configuration-Options
​Terraform​
Log Configuration-Log Driver
​Terraform​
​

Hardening

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Service

Launch Type
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions-Docker Security Options
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Launch Type
​Terraform​
Platform Version
​Terraform​
Task Definition
​Terraform​
​

Load Balancing

AWS::ECS::Service

Load Balancers
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Load Balancers
​Terraform​
​

Deny-all Communications and Only Allow-by-Exception

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Service

Load Balancers-Container Port
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Container Port
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Port
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Port Mappings-Container Port
​Terraform​
Port Mappings-Host Port
​Terraform​
Efsvolume Configuration-Transit Encryption Port
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Load Balancers-Container Port
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Container Port
​Terraform​
Service Registries-Port
​Terraform​
​

Subnet Isolation

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Service

Network Configuration-AWS VPC Configuration
​Terraform​
AWS VPC Configuration-Assign Public Ip
​Terraform​
AWS VPC Configuration-Subnets
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Network Configuration-AWS VPC Configuration
​Terraform​
AWS VPC Configuration-Assign Public Ip
​Terraform​
AWS VPC Configuration-Subnets
​Terraform​
​

Firewalls

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Service

AWS VPC Configuration-Security Groups
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

AWS VPC Configuration-Security Groups
​Terraform​
​

Utilize Role-based Access Control

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::Service

Role
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Execution Role Arn
​Terraform​
Task Role Arn
​Terraform​
​

Input Validation

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Command
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Environment
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Environment Files
​Terraform​
​

Network Isolation and Segregation

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions-Disable Networking
​Terraform​
​

Name/Address Resolution Integrity

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions-Dns Search Domains
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Dns Servers
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Extra Hosts
​Terraform​
​

Design for High Availability

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions-Health Check
​Terraform​
Health Check-Command
​Terraform​
Health Check-Interval
​Terraform​
Health Check-Timeout
​Terraform​
Health Check-Retries
​Terraform​
Health Check-Start Period
​Terraform​
Port Mappings-Protocol
​Terraform​

AWS::ECS::CapacityProvider

Auto Scaling Group Provider
​Terraform​
Managed Scaling-Status
​Terraform​
Auto Scaling Group Provider-Managed Termination Protection
​Terraform​
​

Password Complexity

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Secret Options-Name
​Terraform​
Secret Options-Value From
​Terraform​
Repository Credentials-Credentials Parameter
​Terraform​
Secrets-Name
​Terraform​
Secrets-Value From
​Terraform​
​

Privileged Access Management

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Container Definitions-Privileged
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-Readonly Root Filesystem
​Terraform​
Container Definitions-User
​Terraform​
Efsvolume Configuration-Root Directory
​Terraform​
​

TLS

Design Guidance:

AWS::ECS::TaskDefinition

Efsvolume Configuration-Transit Encryption
​Terraform​
​

Information Flow Routing

AWS::ECS::TaskSet

Load Balancers-Target Group Arn
​Terraform​
​
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