Low
ELB
Regional
Classic Load Balancers should have connection draining enabled
NIST
Description
Verifies that connection draining is enabled on Classic Load Balancers, allowing in-flight requests to complete before instances are deregistered.
Remediation
To enable connection draining for Classic Load Balancers, follow these steps:
Steps
- Open the Amazon EC2 console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/ec2/.
- On the navigation pane, under LOAD BALANCING, choose Load Balancers.
- Select the Classic Load Balancer.
- Choose the Description tab, and find the Attributes section.
- If 'Connection Draining' is disabled, choose Edit attributes.
- Enable 'Connection Draining' by setting it to true and specify the timeout value.
Compliance
NIST