AWS Top 10 Mod

The AWS Top 10 mod provides curated sets of benchmarks and controls for security, cost, operations, and more.

References

AWS provides on-demand cloud computing platforms and APIs to authenticated customers on a metered pay-as-you-go basis.

Steampipe is an open source CLI to instantly query cloud APIs using SQL.

Steampipe Mods are collections of named queries, and codified controls that can be used to test current configuration of your cloud resources against a desired configuration.

Documentation

Benchmarks and controls →
Named queries →

Getting started

Installation

Download and install Steampipe (https://steampipe.io/downloads). Or use Brew:

brew tap turbot/tap
brew install steampipe

Install the AWS plugin with Steampipe:

steampipe plugin install aws

Clone:

git clone https://github.com/turbot/steampipe-mod-aws-top-10.git
cd steampipe-mod-aws-top-10

Install mod dependencies:

steampipe mod install

Usage

Before running any benchmarks, it's recommended to generate your AWS credential report:

aws iam generate-credential-report

Start your dashboard server to get started:

steampipe dashboard

By default, the dashboard interface will then be launched in a new browser window at http://localhost:9194. From here, you can run benchmarks by selecting one or searching for a specific one.

Instead of running benchmarks in a dashboard, you can also run them within your terminal with the steampipe check command:

Run all benchmarks:

steampipe check all

Run a single benchmark:

steampipe check benchmark.account_security

Run a benchmark for a specific item:

steampipe check benchmark.account_security_accurate_account_info

Different output formats are also available, for more information please see Output Formats.

Credentials

This mod uses the credentials configured in the Steampipe AWS plugin.

Configuration

No extra configuration is required.

Common and Tag Dimensions

The benchmark queries use common properties (like account_id, connection_name and region) and tags that are defined in the dependent AWS Compliance mod and AWS Perimeter mod . These properties can be executed in the following ways:

Copy and rename the steampipe.spvars.example file to steampipe.spvars, and then modify the variable values inside that file

Pass in a value on the command line:

steampipe check benchmark.account_security_limit_security_groups --var 'common_dimensions=["account_id", "connection_name", "region"]'

steampipe check benchmark.account_security_limit_security_groups --var 'tag_dimensions=["Environment", "Owner"]'

Set an environment variable:

SP_VAR_common_dimensions='["account_id", "connection_name", "region"]' steampipe check benchmark.account_security_limit_security_groups

SP_VAR_tag_dimensions='["Environment", "Owner"]' steampipe check benchmark.account_security_limit_security_groups

Contributing

If you have an idea for additional controls or just want to help maintain and extend this mod (or others) we would love you to join the community and start contributing.

Join our Slack community → and hang out with other Mod developers.

Please see the contribution guidelines and our code of conduct. All contributions are subject to the Apache 2.0 open source license.

Want to help but not sure where to start? Pick up one of the help wanted issues:

turbot/aws_top_10