06 - RDS Deletion Protection

Ensure your RDS instances have deletion protection enabled

Ensure that your RDS database instances have deletion protection enabled to ensure accidental deletion does not happen. Having this is considered a security best practice and should be enabled. Ensuring this is enabled will help with NIST 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.

Select the DB Identifier hyperlink for the database instance you would like to check.
Under Configuration check if the Deletion protection under Configurationis set to Disabled.

At top right corner of this page select the Modify button.
At the bottom of the modify page, select Enable deletion protection under Deletion protection.

Repeat the outlined steps for each RDS instances that you have.

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