createMacSystemIntegrityProtectionModificationTask

Creates a System Integrity Protection (SIP) modification task to configure the SIP settings for an x86 Mac instance or Apple silicon Mac instance. For more information, see Configure SIP for Amazon EC2 instances in the Amazon EC2 User Guide.

When you configure the SIP settings for your instance, you can either enable or disable all SIP settings, or you can specify a custom SIP configuration that selectively enables or disables specific SIP settings.

If you implement a custom configuration, connect to the instance and verify the settings to ensure that your requirements are properly implemented and functioning as intended.

SIP configurations might change with macOS updates. We recommend that you review custom SIP settings after any macOS version upgrade to ensure continued compatibility and proper functionality of your security configurations.

To enable or disable all SIP settings, use the MacSystemIntegrityProtectionStatus parameter only. For example, to enable all SIP settings, specify the following:

  • MacSystemIntegrityProtectionStatus=enabled

To specify a custom configuration that selectively enables or disables specific SIP settings, use the MacSystemIntegrityProtectionStatus parameter to enable or disable all SIP settings, and then use the MacSystemIntegrityProtectionConfiguration parameter to specify exceptions. In this case, the exceptions you specify for MacSystemIntegrityProtectionConfiguration override the value you specify for MacSystemIntegrityProtectionStatus. For example, to enable all SIP settings, except NvramProtections, specify the following:

  • MacSystemIntegrityProtectionStatus=enabled

  • MacSystemIntegrityProtectionConfigurationRequest "NvramProtections=disabled"