Medium RDS Regional

IAM authentication should be configured for RDS clusters

NISTISO 27001HIPAA

Description

Checks if RDS clusters have IAM authentication enabled. This check also fetches the tags associated with each RDS cluster.

To configure IAM authentication for the identified RDS cluster, follow these steps:

Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console.
In the navigation pane, choose 'Databases'.
Select the identified RDS cluster for which you want to enable IAM authentication.
Choose 'Modify'.
In the 'Database options' section, find the 'IAM DB Authentication' option and enable it.
Scroll to the bottom of the page and choose 'Continue'.
On the summary page, review your changes and choose 'Modify Cluster' to apply the changes.

NISTISO 27001HIPAA