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Ensure RDS cluster has IAM authentication enabled

Risk Level: High
Cloud Entity: Amazon RDS DBCluster
CloudGuard Rule ID: D9.CFT.IAM.40
Covered by Spectral: Yes
Category: Database

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AWS_RDS_DBCluster should have EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication=true

REMEDIATION

From CFT
Set AWS::RDS::DBCluster::EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication to true.
See below example;

Resources:
RDSCluster:
Type: 'AWS::RDS::DBCluster'
Properties:
...

EnableIAMDatabaseAuthentication: true

...

References

  1. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSCloudFormation/latest/UserGuide/aws-resource-rds-dbcluster.html#cfn-rds-dbcluster-enableiamdatabaseauthentication
  2. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/AuroraUserGuide/UsingWithRDS.IAMDBAuth.html

Amazon RDS DBCluster

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.

Compliance Frameworks

  • AWS CloudFormation ruleset

Updated 7 months ago