AWS EC2 Instance Has Detailed Monitoring Enabled

Risk	Remediation Effort
Low	Low

This policy validates that each EC2 Instance is running with detailed monitoring enabled. Detailed monitoring makes instance data available in 1 minute periods, as opposed to 5 minute periods for the Basic monitoring provided by default.

Remediation

To remediate this, enable detailed monitoring for each EC2 Instance.

Reference

• AWS EC2 Enabling Detailed Monitoring documentation