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Medium EFS · regional

EFS mount targets should not be associated with subnets that assign public IP addresses on launch

Checks that no mount target of the EFS file system is in a subnet that assigns public IPv4 addresses on launch or IPv6 addresses on creation, where instances that mount it could get publicly routable addresses. Turning those settings off on the subnet also passes, but it applies to every later launch there.

service
EFS
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

  • Replaces the resource: A mount target's subnet cannot change and each Availability Zone holds one, so remove the old mount target and save, then add one in the private subnet.
  • Interrupts service: Removing a mount target forcibly breaks every mount through it, so stop applications and unmount on clients in that Availability Zone first.

In the console

EFS → File systems → the file system → Network → Manage

Subnet ID
A subnet in the same Availability Zone with auto-assign public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses off
Security groups
The ones the old mount target used

With the AWS CLI

aws efs create-mount-target --file-system-id <file-system-id> --subnet-id <private-subnet-id> --security-groups <security-group-id> --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_efs_mount_target" "this" {
  file_system_id  = var.file_system_id
  subnet_id       = var.private_subnet_id
  security_groups = var.security_group_ids
}

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