Medium RDS Regional

IAM authentication should be configured for RDS clusters

NISTISO 27001HIPAA

Description

Confirms that RDS clusters have IAM database authentication enabled.


Remediation

Enable IAM database authentication for the identified RDS cluster.

Steps

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console.
  2. Select the cluster and choose 'Modify'.
  3. In the 'Database options' section, enable 'IAM DB Authentication'.
  4. Save the changes.

Compliance

NISTISO 27001HIPAA