04 - RDS Backup Retention

Ensure your RDS instances have a backup retention of at least 7 days

Ensure that your RDS database instances are set to automatically backup and retains the backup for at least 7 days. This is considered a security best practice and should have setting applied. Ensuring this is enabled will help with NIST and HIPPA compliance.

Audit & Remediation

Login into your AWS account
Navigate to the RDS service at: https://console.aws.amazon.com/rds
On the left hand panel select Databases.
At top right corner of this page select the Modify button.
Scroll down to Additional configuration and then under Backup ensure the Enable automatic backups is checked and Backup retention period is set to at least 7 days.

Repeat the outlined steps for each db instance.
Repeat the outlined steps for each region you have rds instances running.

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