Medium RDS Regional

RDS for SQL Server DB instances should publish logs to CloudWatch Logs

NIST 800-53

Description

Verifies that RDS for SQL Server instances publish error logs to CloudWatch Logs.


Remediation

Enable error log publishing to CloudWatch Logs for SQL Server DB instances.

Steps

  1. Sign in to the AWS Management Console and open the Amazon RDS console.
  2. Select the SQL Server DB instance and choose 'Modify'.
  3. In the 'Log Exports' setting, select 'error'.
  4. Save the changes.

Compliance

NIST 800-53