Ensure that your Amazon RDS resources have event notifications enabled in order to get notifications when an event occurs for a given database instance, database snapshot, database security group, or database parameter group. The Amazon RDS service groups these events into categories that you can subscribe to, so that you can be notified via Amazon SNS when an event in that category occurs. For example, if you subscribe to the Backup category for a given database instance, you will be notified whenever a backup-related event occurs for the specified instance.
This rule can help you with the following compliance standards:
- NIST4
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Monitoring is an essential part of maintaining the availability, reliability, and performance of your Amazon RDS resources. Enabling event notifications will keep you up-to-date on everything that's going with your Amazon RDS database resources.
Audit
To determine if your Amazon RDS resources (instances, snapshots, security groups, etc.) are using event notifications, perform the following operations:
Remediation / Resolution
To subscribe to Amazon RDS event notifications so you can be notified when an important event occurs for a given RDS resource, perform the following operations:
Note: As an example, this conformity rule demonstrates how to subscribe to the Amazon RDS Backup category for a given database instance in order to be notified whenever a backup-related event that affects the specified instance occurs.References
- AWS Documentation
- Amazon RDS FAQs
- Monitoring Amazon RDS
- Using Amazon RDS Event Notification
- Viewing Amazon RDS Events
- AWS Command Line Interface (CLI) Documentation
- rds
- describe-event-subscriptions
- create-event-subscription
- sns
- create-topic
- subscribe
- confirm-subscription
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