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AWS best practice to not use the default VPC for workflows

Default Severity: high

Explanation

Default VPC does not have a lot of the critical security features that standard VPC comes with, new resources should not be created in the default VPC and it should not be present in the Terraform.

Possible Impact

The default VPC does not have critical security features applied

Suggested Resolution

Create a non-default vpc for resources to be created in

Insecure Example

The following example will fail the aws-ec2-no-default-vpc check. 

 resource "aws_default_vpc" "default" {
    tags = {
      Name = "Default VPC"
    }
   }

Secure Example

The following example will pass the aws-ec2-no-default-vpc check. 

 # no aws default vpc present