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EKS Private Endpoint Access Disabled

eks-private-endpoint-access-disabled

What this rule checks

Detects EKS clusters with public API access but no private endpoint access.

How to fix it

  1. 1Set ResourcesVpcConfig.EndpointPrivateAccess to true so node/API traffic stays inside the VPC

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Affected resource types

AWS::EKS::Cluster

Compliance frameworks

SOC2HIPAAPCI-DSSNIST

AWS documentation

Read the AWS guidance

Intentional? Suppress this finding

Sometimes a flag is deliberate โ€” a genuinely public endpoint, say. You can dismiss eks-private-endpoint-access-disabled and the reason is kept in the report, not silently hidden.

In .cdk-insights.json:

{
  "ignoreRules": [
    { "id": "eks-private-endpoint-access-disabled", "reason": "Why this is intentional" }
  ]
}

Or inline in your CDK code:

Validations.of(scope).acknowledge({
  id: 'cdk-insights::eks-private-endpoint-access-disabled',
  reason: 'Why this is intentional',
});

Use the rule ID eks-private-endpoint-access-disabled shown above โ€” not the CDK-* ID from SARIF / GitHub code scanning. To dismiss every finding on one construct instead, use ignorePaths. Suppression docs โ†’

Catch this in your stack

$ npx cdk-insights scan

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