Detect & correct EC2 instances of older generation

Overview

Older generation instance types are more expensive and less performant than the current generation equivalents, you should be using the latest generation to reduce costs and increase performance.

This pipeline detects older generation EC2 instances and then either sends a notification or attempts to perform a predefined corrective action.

Getting Started

This control will work out-of-the-box with some sensible defaults (configurable via variables).

You should be able to simply run the following command in your terminal:

flowpipe pipeline run detect_and_correct_ec2_instances_of_older_generation

By default, Flowpipe runs in wizard mode and prompts directly in the terminal for a decision on the action(s) to take for each detected resource.

However, you can run Flowpipe in server mode with external integrations, allowing it to prompt for input via http, slack, teams, etc.

Alternatively, you can choose to configure and run in other modes:

Notify: Provides detections without taking any corrective action.
Automatic: Performs corrective actions automatically without user intervention.

Pipeline

Correct EC2 instances of older generation

Query

select
  concat(instance_id, ' [', region, '/', account_id, ']') as title,
  instance_id,
  region,
  _ctx ->> 'connection_name' as cred
from
  aws_ec2_instance
where
  instance_type like 't2.%'
  or instance_type like 'm3.%'
  or instance_type like 'm4.%'

Schedule

15m