Medium RDS Regional

RDS DB instances should publish logs to CloudWatch Logs

NISTISO 27001HIPAA

Description

Verifies that RDS instances have database logging to CloudWatch Logs enabled.


Remediation

Enable database logging for the identified RDS instance.

Steps

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console.
  2. Select the RDS instance and choose 'Modify'.
  3. In the 'Log Exports' setting, select the types of logs to enable.
  4. Save the changes.

Compliance

NISTISO 27001HIPAA