Amazon_Redshift_9

Ensure Redshift Cluster Allow Version Upgrade is enabled

Description

Version Upgrade should be enabled for Redshift clusters to automatically receive upgrades during the maintenance window.

Remediation

1. Run modify-cluster command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the cluster that you want to update as identifier to enable AWS Redshift engine version upgrades for the selected cluster.

 Eg: aws redshift modify-cluster --region us-east-1 --cluster-identifier cc-cluster --allow-version-upgrade

2. If successful, the command output should return the Redshift cluster new configuration metadata

Service

Redshift

Severity

Medium

Compliance

Mapping

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