Low
RDS
Regional
Existing RDS event notification subscriptions should be configured for critical cluster events
NIST
Description
This check verifies whether an Amazon RDS event subscription for database clusters has notifications enabled for both 'maintenance' and 'failure' event categories.
Remediation
If the check fails, the event subscription for the RDS cluster is not configured for the critical event categories 'maintenance' and 'failure'. Follow the steps below to fix this.
Steps
- Navigate to the Amazon RDS console.
- Go to 'Event Subscriptions' and review the event subscriptions for database clusters.
- Open the failing subscription.
- Ensure that both 'maintenance' and 'failure' event categories or All event categories are selected for database clusters.
- Update the existing subscription to include the missing event categories.
Compliance
NIST