RDS Instance Retention Period Not Recommended

• Query id: dc158941-28ce-481d-a7fa-dc80761edf46
• Query name: RDS Instance Retention Period Not Recommended
• Platform: Terraform
• Severity: Medium
• Category: Observability
• URL: Github

Description

RDS Instance SQL Retention Period should be greater than 180
Documentation

Code samples

Code samples with security vulnerabilities

Postitive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    },{
        name = "log_connections"
        value = "ON"
    }]
}

Postitive test num. 2 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    sql_collector_status = "Disabled"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    },{
        name = "log_connections"
        value = "ON"
    }]
}

Postitive test num. 3 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    sql_collector_status = "Enabled"
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    },{
        name = "log_connections"
        value = "ON"
    }]
}

Postitive test num. 4 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    sql_collector_status = "Enabled"
    sql_collector_config_value = 30
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    },{
        name = "log_connections"
        value = "ON"
    }]
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "alicloud_db_instance" "default" {
    engine = "MySQL"
    engine_version = "5.6"
    db_instance_class = "rds.mysql.t1.small"
    db_instance_storage = "10"
    sql_collector_status = "Enabled"
    sql_collector_config_value = 180
    parameters = [{
        name = "innodb_large_prefix"
        value = "ON"
    },{
        name = "connect_timeout"
        value = "50"
    },{
        name = "log_connections"
        value = "ON"
    }]
}