Control: 7.1.5 Ensure that SKU Basic/Consumption is not used on artifacts that need to be monitored (Particularly for Production Workloads)
Description
The use of Basic or Free SKUs in Azure whilst cost effective have significant limitations in terms of what can be monitored and what support can be realized from Microsoft. Typically, these SKU’s do not have a service SLA and Microsoft may refuse to provide support for them. Consequently Basic/Free SKUs should never be used for production workloads.
Typically, production workloads need to be monitored and should have an SLA with Microsoft, using Basic SKUs for any deployed product will mean that that these capabilities do not exist.
The following resource types should use standard SKUs as a minimum.
- Public IP Addresses
- Network Load Balancers
- REDIS Cache
- SQL PaaS Databases
- VPN Gateways
Remediation
Each resource has its own process for upgrading from basic to standard SKUs that should be followed if required.
Public IP Address: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/ip-services/public-ip-upgrade
Basic Load Balancer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/load-balancer/load-balancer-basic-upgrade-guidance
Azure Cache for Redis: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-cache-for-redis/cache-how-to-scale
Azure SQL Database: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql/database/scale-resources
VPN Gateway: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/vpn-gateway/gateway-sku-resize
Default Value
Policy should enforce standard SKUs for the following artifacts:
- Public IP Addresses
- Network Load Balancers
- REDIS Cache
- SQL PaaS Databases
- VPN Gateways.
Usage
Run the control in your terminal:
powerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v400_7_1_5Snapshot and share results via Turbot Pipes:
powerpipe loginpowerpipe control run azure_compliance.control.cis_v400_7_1_5 --shareSQL
This control uses a named query:
select id as resource, 'info' as status, 'Manual verification required.' as reason, display_name as subscriptionfrom azure_subscription;