Amazon_RDS_5

Ensure Relational Database Service Instances have Auto Minor Version Upgrade Enabled

Description

Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) is a managed relational database service which handles routine database tasks such as provisioning, patching, backup, recovery, failure detection, and repair.
There are 6 database engines available for customer to run their database workloads on:

  • Amazon Aurora (MySQL Compatible)
  • MySQL
  • MariaDB
  • Oracle
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • PostgreSQL


If the database engine used by your application supports it, ensure that the RDS Instances have Auto Minor Version Upgrade Enabled.

Remediation

Using the Amazon unified command line interface:

  • Modify each DB instance with auto-minor-version-upgrade set to False, and enable auto-minor-version-upgrade:
    aws rds modify-db-instance –db-instance-identifier <your_db_instance> –auto-minor-version-upgrade

Service

RDS

Severity

Low

Compliance

Mapping

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