Ensure AWS RDS retention policy is at least 7 days

Risk Level: High
Cloud Entity: Amazon RDS
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.AWS.DR.03
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Database

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RDS should have backupRetentionPeriod>6

REMEDIATION

From Portal
Configure your RDS backup retention policy to be at least 7 days.

1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds/.
2. In the navigation pane, choose Databases, and then choose the DB instance that you want to modify.
3. Choose Modify.
4. In 'Backup' section,
   a. From the 'Backup Retention Period' options set the retention period to at least 7 days.
   b. Select 'Start Time' and 'Duration' in 'Backup window', which is the daily time range (in UTC) during which automated backups will be performed
5. Click 'Continue'
6. On the confirmation page, select 'Modify DB Instance' to save your changes

From TF

resource "aws_db_instance" "default" {
	allocated_storage    = 10
	engine               = "mysql"
	engine_version       = "5.7"
	instance_class       = "db.t3.micro"
	name                 = "mydb"
	username             = "foo"
	password             = "foobarbaz"
	parameter_group_name = "default.mysql5.7"
	skip_final_snapshot  = true
	+ backup_retention_period = 7 # number should be 7 or more
}

From Command Line
aws rds modify-db-instance --region REGION --db-instance-identifier DBINSTANCE --backup-retention-period 7 --apply-immediately

References

1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_WorkingWithAutomatedBackups.html
2. https://aws.amazon.com/rds/faqs/
3. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/db_instance

Amazon RDS

Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) makes it easy to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. It provides cost-efficient and resizable capacity while automating time-consuming administration tasks such as hardware provisioning, database setup, patching and backups. It frees you to focus on your applications so you can give them the fast performance, high availability, security and compatibility they need.

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