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Low EC2 · regional

Unused Network Access Control Lists should be removed

Flags a custom network ACL that is associated with no subnet. Unassociated, its rules filter nothing, which matters most where someone wrote deny rules here and believes they are in force. If they should be, associate it with the subnets it was meant for instead of deleting it.

service
EC2
severity
Low
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

  • Can't be undone: A deleted network ACL cannot be restored, so copy any of its rules worth keeping before deleting it.

In the console

VPC → Network ACLs → the network ACL → Actions → Delete network ACLs

With the AWS CLI

aws ec2 delete-network-acl --network-acl-id <network-acl-id> --region <region>

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