Low RDS Regional

Enhanced monitoring should be configured for RDS DB instances

NIST

Description

Confirms that RDS instances have enhanced monitoring configured.


Remediation

Enable enhanced monitoring for the identified RDS DB instance.

Steps

  1. Log in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console.
  2. Select the RDS DB instance and choose 'Modify'.
  3. In the 'Monitoring' section, enable 'Enhanced monitoring'.
  4. Select a monitoring interval and IAM role.
  5. Save the changes.

Compliance

NIST