RDS Cluster With Backup Disabled

Query id: e542bd46-58c4-4e0f-a52a-1fb4f9548e02
Query name: RDS Cluster With Backup Disabled
Platform: Terraform
Severity: Medium
Category: Best Practices
URL: Github

Description¶

RDS Cluster backup retention period should be specifically defined
Documentation

Code samples¶

Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶

Positive test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_rds_cluster" "postgresql" {
  cluster_identifier      = "aurora-cluster-demo"
  engine                  = "aurora-postgresql"
  availability_zones      = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2c"]
  database_name           = "mydb"
  master_username         = "foo"
  master_password         = "bar"
  preferred_backup_window = "07:00-09:00"
}

Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶

Negative test num. 1 - tf file

resource "aws_rds_cluster" "postgresql" {
  cluster_identifier      = "aurora-cluster-demo"
  engine                  = "aurora-postgresql"
  availability_zones      = ["us-west-2a", "us-west-2b", "us-west-2c"]
  database_name           = "mydb"
  master_username         = "foo"
  master_password         = "bar"
  backup_retention_period = 5
  preferred_backup_window = "07:00-09:00"
}