AWS-EMR-cluster-termination-protection-disable

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Last updated: Nov 17, 2021
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Severity: High

Description: This control ensures that termination protection is enabled for EMR clusters. Amazon EMR, allows to create a transient cluster that auto-terminates after steps complete, or to create a long-running cluster that continues to run until its terminated deliberately. When termination protection is enabled on an EMR cluster, it ensures that EC2 instances are not shut down by an accident or error. Termination protection is especially useful if cluster might have data stored on local disks that need to recover before the instances are terminated. 

Remediation Steps:

Perform following to enable termination protection for EMR cluster :

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com

  2. Navigate to EMR service.

  3. In the Navigation pane, choose Clusters.

  4. Select the cluster listed and click.

  5. Click on selected cluster , Go to Summary tab for Termination Protection

  6. Choose change , and select ON.

  7. Choose green check mark to confirm.

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Reference:

Blue Hexagon Proprietary