AWS Config Rule: RDS Instance IAM Authentication Enabled
RDS_INSTANCE_IAM_AUTHENTICATION_ENABLED
Eduardo Van Cauteren
Last Update 7 maanden geleden
Description: Checks if an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance has AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication enabled. This rule is NON_COMPLIANT if an Amazon RDS instance does not have AWS IAM authentication enabled.
Trigger type: Configuration changes
AWS Region: All supported AWS regions except Africa (Cape Town), Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Asia Pacific (Osaka), Europe (Spain) Region
How to Resolve Manually
This rules checks whether Identity and Access Management (IAM) authentication is enabled for a specific Amazon RDS database instance. If the database authentication is configured as password authentication, the rule will be marked as non-compliant.
Note: for this Config Rule to work, the DB Engine should be one of 'mysql', 'postgres', 'aurora', 'aurora-mysql', or 'aurora-postgresq'. The DB instance status should be one of 'available', 'backing-up', 'storage-optimization', or 'storage-full'.
To check the current database authentication of an instance, head to AWS Console, go to RDS and click on DB Instances from within the Dashboard. Then click on the name of the desired database and go to the Configuration tab to check the current IAM DB authentication status. In case it's Disabled, click on Modify button to open the configuration screen then look for the Database authentication card and choose the Password and IAM database authentication option; click Continue to review the Summary of modifications then finally click on Modify DB Instance button to apply changes. Check the following screenshot as reference:
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