RDS Multi-AZ Deployment Disabled
- Query id: 2b1d4935-9acf-48a7-8466-10d18bf51a69
- Query name: RDS Multi-AZ Deployment Disabled
- Platform: CloudFormation
- Severity: Medium
- Category: Availability
- URL: Github
Description¶
AWS RDS Instance should have a multi-az deployment
Documentation
Code samples¶
Code samples with security vulnerabilities¶
Positive test num. 1 - yaml file
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template RDS_MySQL_With_Read_Replica:
Sample template showing how to create a highly-available, RDS DBInstance with
a read replica. **WARNING** This template creates an Amazon Relational
Database Service database instance and Amazon CloudWatch alarms. You will be
billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template."
Parameters:
DBName:
Default: MyDatabase
Description: The database name
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "64"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*"
ConstraintDescription: must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBUser:
NoEcho: "true"
Description: The database admin account username
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "16"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*"
ConstraintDescription: must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBPassword:
NoEcho: "true"
Description: The database admin account password
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "41"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
ConstraintDescription: must contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBAllocatedStorage:
Default: "5"
Description: The size of the database (Gb)
Type: Number
MinValue: "5"
MaxValue: "1024"
ConstraintDescription: must be between 5 and 1024Gb.
DBInstanceClass:
Description: The database instance type
Type: String
Default: db.t2.small
AllowedValues:
- db.t1.micro
- db.m1.small
- db.m1.medium
- db.m1.large
- db.m1.xlarge
- db.m2.xlarge
- db.m2.2xlarge
- db.m2.4xlarge
- db.m3.medium
- db.m3.large
- db.m3.xlarge
- db.m3.2xlarge
- db.m4.large
- db.m4.xlarge
- db.m4.2xlarge
- db.m4.4xlarge
- db.m4.10xlarge
- db.r3.large
- db.r3.xlarge
- db.r3.2xlarge
- db.r3.4xlarge
- db.r3.8xlarge
- db.m2.xlarge
- db.m2.2xlarge
- db.m2.4xlarge
- db.cr1.8xlarge
- db.t2.micro
- db.t2.small
- db.t2.medium
- db.t2.large
ConstraintDescription: must select a valid database instance type.
EC2SecurityGroup:
Description: The EC2 security group that contains instances that need access to
the database
Default: default
Type: String
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+"
ConstraintDescription: must be a valid security group name.
Conditions:
Is-EC2-VPC:
Fn::Or:
- Fn::Equals:
- Ref: AWS::Region
- eu-central-1
- Fn::Equals:
- Ref: AWS::Region
- cn-north-1
Is-EC2-Classic:
Fn::Not:
- Condition: Is-EC2-VPC
Resources:
DBEC2SecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
Condition: Is-EC2-VPC
Properties:
GroupDescription: Open database for access
SecurityGroupIngress:
- IpProtocol: tcp
FromPort: 3306
ToPort: 3306
SourceSecurityGroupName:
Ref: EC2SecurityGroup
DBSecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup
Condition: Is-EC2-Classic
Properties:
DBSecurityGroupIngress:
- EC2SecurityGroupName:
Ref: EC2SecurityGroup
GroupDescription: database access
MasterDB:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
Properties:
DBName:
Ref: DBName
AllocatedStorage:
Ref: DBAllocatedStorage
DBInstanceClass:
Ref: DBInstanceClass
Engine: MySQL
MasterUsername:
Ref: DBUser
MasterUserPassword:
Ref: DBPassword
MultiAZ: false
Tags:
- Key: Name
Value: Master Database
VPCSecurityGroups:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-VPC
- - Fn::GetAtt:
- DBEC2SecurityGroup
- GroupId
- Ref: AWS::NoValue
DBSecurityGroups:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-Classic
- - Ref: DBSecurityGroup
- Ref: AWS::NoValue
DeletionPolicy: Snapshot
UpdateReplacePolicy: Snapshot
ReplicaDB:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
Properties:
SourceDBInstanceIdentifier:
Ref: MasterDB
DBInstanceClass:
Ref: DBInstanceClass
Tags:
- Key: Name
Value: Read Replica Database
Outputs:
EC2Platform:
Description: Platform in which this stack is deployed
Value:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-VPC
- EC2-VPC
- EC2-Classic
MasterJDBCConnectionString:
Description: JDBC connection string for the master database
Value:
Fn::Join:
- ""
- - jdbc:mysql://
- Fn::GetAtt:
- MasterDB
- Endpoint.Address
- ":"
- Fn::GetAtt:
- MasterDB
- Endpoint.Port
- /
- Ref: DBName
ReplicaJDBCConnectionString:
Description: JDBC connection string for the replica database
Value:
Fn::Join:
- ""
- - jdbc:mysql://
- Fn::GetAtt:
- ReplicaDB
- Endpoint.Address
- ":"
- Fn::GetAtt:
- ReplicaDB
- Endpoint.Port
- /
- Ref: DBName
Positive test num. 2 - json file
{
"Conditions": {
"Is-EC2-VPC": {
"Fn::Or": [
{
"Fn::Equals": [
{
"Ref": "AWS::Region"
},
"eu-central-1"
]
},
{
"Fn::Equals": [
{
"Ref": "AWS::Region"
},
"cn-north-1"
]
}
]
},
"Is-EC2-Classic": {
"Fn::Not": [
{
"Condition": "Is-EC2-VPC"
}
]
}
},
"Resources": {
"DBEC2SecurityGroup": {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
"Condition": "Is-EC2-VPC",
"Properties": {
"GroupDescription": "Open database for access",
"SecurityGroupIngress": [
{
"IpProtocol": "tcp",
"FromPort": 3306,
"ToPort": 3306,
"SourceSecurityGroupName": {
"Ref": "EC2SecurityGroup"
}
}
]
}
},
"DBSecurityGroup": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup",
"Condition": "Is-EC2-Classic",
"Properties": {
"GroupDescription": "database access",
"DBSecurityGroupIngress": [
{
"EC2SecurityGroupName": {
"Ref": "EC2SecurityGroup"
}
}
]
}
},
"MasterDB": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
"Properties": {
"DBSecurityGroups": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-Classic",
[
{
"Ref": "DBSecurityGroup"
}
],
{
"Ref": "AWS::NoValue"
}
]
},
"DBName": {
"Ref": "DBName"
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"Ref": "DBInstanceClass"
},
"Engine": "MySQL",
"MasterUserPassword": {
"Ref": "DBPassword"
},
"MultiAZ": false,
"AllocatedStorage": {
"Ref": "DBAllocatedStorage"
},
"MasterUsername": {
"Ref": "DBUser"
},
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "Master Database"
}
],
"VPCSecurityGroups": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-VPC",
[
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"DBEC2SecurityGroup",
"GroupId"
]
}
],
{
"Ref": "AWS::NoValue"
}
]
}
},
"DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot",
"UpdateReplacePolicy": "Snapshot"
},
"ReplicaDB": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
"Properties": {
"SourceDBInstanceIdentifier": {
"Ref": "MasterDB"
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"Ref": "DBInstanceClass"
},
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "Read Replica Database"
}
]
}
}
},
"Outputs": {
"ReplicaJDBCConnectionString": {
"Description": "JDBC connection string for the replica database",
"Value": {
"Fn::Join": [
"",
[
"jdbc:mysql://",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"ReplicaDB",
"Endpoint.Address"
]
},
":",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"ReplicaDB",
"Endpoint.Port"
]
},
"/",
{
"Ref": "DBName"
}
]
]
}
},
"EC2Platform": {
"Description": "Platform in which this stack is deployed",
"Value": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-VPC",
"EC2-VPC",
"EC2-Classic"
]
}
},
"MasterJDBCConnectionString": {
"Description": "JDBC connection string for the master database",
"Value": {
"Fn::Join": [
"",
[
"jdbc:mysql://",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"MasterDB",
"Endpoint.Address"
]
},
":",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"MasterDB",
"Endpoint.Port"
]
},
"/",
{
"Ref": "DBName"
}
]
]
}
}
},
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
"Description": "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template RDS_MySQL_With_Read_Replica: Sample template showing how to create a highly-available, RDS DBInstance with a read replica. **WARNING** This template creates an Amazon Relational Database Service database instance and Amazon CloudWatch alarms. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template.",
"Parameters": {
"DBAllocatedStorage": {
"MaxValue": "1024",
"ConstraintDescription": "must be between 5 and 1024Gb.",
"Default": "5",
"Description": "The size of the database (Gb)",
"Type": "Number",
"MinValue": "5"
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"AllowedValues": [
"db.t1.micro",
"db.m1.small",
"db.m1.medium",
"db.m1.large",
"db.m1.xlarge",
"db.m2.xlarge",
"db.m2.2xlarge",
"db.m2.4xlarge",
"db.m3.medium",
"db.m3.large",
"db.m3.xlarge",
"db.m3.2xlarge",
"db.m4.large",
"db.m4.xlarge",
"db.m4.2xlarge",
"db.m4.4xlarge",
"db.m4.10xlarge",
"db.r3.large",
"db.r3.xlarge",
"db.r3.2xlarge",
"db.r3.4xlarge",
"db.r3.8xlarge",
"db.m2.xlarge",
"db.m2.2xlarge",
"db.m2.4xlarge",
"db.cr1.8xlarge",
"db.t2.micro",
"db.t2.small",
"db.t2.medium",
"db.t2.large"
],
"ConstraintDescription": "must select a valid database instance type.",
"Description": "The database instance type",
"Type": "String",
"Default": "db.t2.small"
},
"EC2SecurityGroup": {
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+",
"ConstraintDescription": "must be a valid security group name.",
"Description": "The EC2 security group that contains instances that need access to the database",
"Default": "default",
"Type": "String"
},
"DBName": {
"Default": "MyDatabase",
"Description": "The database name",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1",
"MaxLength": "64",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*",
"ConstraintDescription": "must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters."
},
"DBUser": {
"NoEcho": "true",
"Description": "The database admin account username",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1",
"MaxLength": "16",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*",
"ConstraintDescription": "must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters."
},
"DBPassword": {
"NoEcho": "true",
"Description": "The database admin account password",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1",
"MaxLength": "41",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z0-9]+",
"ConstraintDescription": "must contain only alphanumeric characters."
}
}
}
Code samples without security vulnerabilities¶
Negative test num. 1 - yaml file
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09
Description: "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template RDS_MySQL_With_Read_Replica:
Sample template showing how to create a highly-available, RDS DBInstance with
a read replica. **WARNING** This template creates an Amazon Relational
Database Service database instance and Amazon CloudWatch alarms. You will be
billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template."
Parameters:
DBName:
Default: MyDatabase
Description: The database name
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "64"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*"
ConstraintDescription: must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBUser:
NoEcho: "true"
Description: The database admin account username
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "16"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*"
ConstraintDescription: must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBPassword:
NoEcho: "true"
Description: The database admin account password
Type: String
MinLength: "1"
MaxLength: "41"
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
ConstraintDescription: must contain only alphanumeric characters.
DBAllocatedStorage:
Default: "5"
Description: The size of the database (Gb)
Type: Number
MinValue: "5"
MaxValue: "1024"
ConstraintDescription: must be between 5 and 1024Gb.
DBInstanceClass:
Description: The database instance type
Type: String
Default: db.t2.small
AllowedValues:
- db.t1.micro
- db.m1.small
- db.m1.medium
- db.m1.large
- db.m1.xlarge
- db.m2.xlarge
- db.m2.2xlarge
- db.m2.4xlarge
- db.m3.medium
- db.m3.large
- db.m3.xlarge
- db.m3.2xlarge
- db.m4.large
- db.m4.xlarge
- db.m4.2xlarge
- db.m4.4xlarge
- db.m4.10xlarge
- db.r3.large
- db.r3.xlarge
- db.r3.2xlarge
- db.r3.4xlarge
- db.r3.8xlarge
- db.m2.xlarge
- db.m2.2xlarge
- db.m2.4xlarge
- db.cr1.8xlarge
- db.t2.micro
- db.t2.small
- db.t2.medium
- db.t2.large
ConstraintDescription: must select a valid database instance type.
EC2SecurityGroup:
Description: The EC2 security group that contains instances that need access to
the database
Default: default
Type: String
AllowedPattern: "[a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+"
ConstraintDescription: must be a valid security group name.
Conditions:
Is-EC2-VPC:
Fn::Or:
- Fn::Equals:
- Ref: AWS::Region
- eu-central-1
- Fn::Equals:
- Ref: AWS::Region
- cn-north-1
Is-EC2-Classic:
Fn::Not:
- Condition: Is-EC2-VPC
Resources:
DBEC2SecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup
Condition: Is-EC2-VPC
Properties:
GroupDescription: Open database for access
SecurityGroupIngress:
- IpProtocol: tcp
FromPort: 3306
ToPort: 3306
SourceSecurityGroupName:
Ref: EC2SecurityGroup
DBSecurityGroup:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup
Condition: Is-EC2-Classic
Properties:
DBSecurityGroupIngress:
- EC2SecurityGroupName:
Ref: EC2SecurityGroup
GroupDescription: database access
MasterDB:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
Properties:
DBName:
Ref: DBName
AllocatedStorage:
Ref: DBAllocatedStorage
DBInstanceClass:
Ref: DBInstanceClass
Engine: MySQL
MasterUsername:
Ref: DBUser
MasterUserPassword:
Ref: DBPassword
MultiAZ: true
Tags:
- Key: Name
Value: Master Database
VPCSecurityGroups:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-VPC
- - Fn::GetAtt:
- DBEC2SecurityGroup
- GroupId
- Ref: AWS::NoValue
DBSecurityGroups:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-Classic
- - Ref: DBSecurityGroup
- Ref: AWS::NoValue
DeletionPolicy: Snapshot
UpdateReplacePolicy: Snapshot
ReplicaDB:
Type: AWS::RDS::DBInstance
Properties:
SourceDBInstanceIdentifier:
Ref: MasterDB
DBInstanceClass:
Ref: DBInstanceClass
MultiAZ: true
Tags:
- Key: Name
Value: Read Replica Database
Outputs:
EC2Platform:
Description: Platform in which this stack is deployed
Value:
Fn::If:
- Is-EC2-VPC
- EC2-VPC
- EC2-Classic
MasterJDBCConnectionString:
Description: JDBC connection string for the master database
Value:
Fn::Join:
- ""
- - jdbc:mysql://
- Fn::GetAtt:
- MasterDB
- Endpoint.Address
- ":"
- Fn::GetAtt:
- MasterDB
- Endpoint.Port
- /
- Ref: DBName
ReplicaJDBCConnectionString:
Description: JDBC connection string for the replica database
Value:
Fn::Join:
- ""
- - jdbc:mysql://
- Fn::GetAtt:
- ReplicaDB
- Endpoint.Address
- ":"
- Fn::GetAtt:
- ReplicaDB
- Endpoint.Port
- /
- Ref: DBName
Negative test num. 2 - json file
{
"Resources": {
"DBEC2SecurityGroup": {
"Type": "AWS::EC2::SecurityGroup",
"Condition": "Is-EC2-VPC",
"Properties": {
"GroupDescription": "Open database for access",
"SecurityGroupIngress": [
{
"IpProtocol": "tcp",
"FromPort": 3306,
"ToPort": 3306,
"SourceSecurityGroupName": {
"Ref": "EC2SecurityGroup"
}
}
]
}
},
"DBSecurityGroup": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBSecurityGroup",
"Condition": "Is-EC2-Classic",
"Properties": {
"DBSecurityGroupIngress": [
{
"EC2SecurityGroupName": {
"Ref": "EC2SecurityGroup"
}
}
],
"GroupDescription": "database access"
}
},
"MasterDB": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
"Properties": {
"VPCSecurityGroups": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-VPC",
[
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"DBEC2SecurityGroup",
"GroupId"
]
}
],
{
"Ref": "AWS::NoValue"
}
]
},
"DBSecurityGroups": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-Classic",
[
{
"Ref": "DBSecurityGroup"
}
],
{
"Ref": "AWS::NoValue"
}
]
},
"DBName": {
"Ref": "DBName"
},
"AllocatedStorage": {
"Ref": "DBAllocatedStorage"
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"Ref": "DBInstanceClass"
},
"MasterUserPassword": {
"Ref": "DBPassword"
},
"MultiAZ": true,
"Engine": "MySQL",
"MasterUsername": {
"Ref": "DBUser"
},
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "Master Database"
}
]
},
"DeletionPolicy": "Snapshot",
"UpdateReplacePolicy": "Snapshot"
},
"ReplicaDB": {
"Type": "AWS::RDS::DBInstance",
"Properties": {
"SourceDBInstanceIdentifier": {
"Ref": "MasterDB"
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"Ref": "DBInstanceClass"
},
"MultiAZ": true,
"Tags": [
{
"Key": "Name",
"Value": "Read Replica Database"
}
]
}
}
},
"Outputs": {
"EC2Platform": {
"Description": "Platform in which this stack is deployed",
"Value": {
"Fn::If": [
"Is-EC2-VPC",
"EC2-VPC",
"EC2-Classic"
]
}
},
"MasterJDBCConnectionString": {
"Description": "JDBC connection string for the master database",
"Value": {
"Fn::Join": [
"",
[
"jdbc:mysql://",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"MasterDB",
"Endpoint.Address"
]
},
":",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"MasterDB",
"Endpoint.Port"
]
},
"/",
{
"Ref": "DBName"
}
]
]
}
},
"ReplicaJDBCConnectionString": {
"Description": "JDBC connection string for the replica database",
"Value": {
"Fn::Join": [
"",
[
"jdbc:mysql://",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"ReplicaDB",
"Endpoint.Address"
]
},
":",
{
"Fn::GetAtt": [
"ReplicaDB",
"Endpoint.Port"
]
},
"/",
{
"Ref": "DBName"
}
]
]
}
}
},
"AWSTemplateFormatVersion": "2010-09-09T00:00:00Z",
"Description": "AWS CloudFormation Sample Template RDS_MySQL_With_Read_Replica: Sample template showing how to create a highly-available, RDS DBInstance with a read replica. **WARNING** This template creates an Amazon Relational Database Service database instance and Amazon CloudWatch alarms. You will be billed for the AWS resources used if you create a stack from this template.",
"Parameters": {
"DBName": {
"MaxLength": "64",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*",
"ConstraintDescription": "must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters.",
"Default": "MyDatabase",
"Description": "The database name",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1"
},
"DBUser": {
"NoEcho": "true",
"Description": "The database admin account username",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1",
"MaxLength": "16",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9]*",
"ConstraintDescription": "must begin with a letter and contain only alphanumeric characters."
},
"DBPassword": {
"NoEcho": "true",
"Description": "The database admin account password",
"Type": "String",
"MinLength": "1",
"MaxLength": "41",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z0-9]+",
"ConstraintDescription": "must contain only alphanumeric characters."
},
"DBAllocatedStorage": {
"Default": "5",
"Description": "The size of the database (Gb)",
"Type": "Number",
"MinValue": "5",
"MaxValue": "1024",
"ConstraintDescription": "must be between 5 and 1024Gb."
},
"DBInstanceClass": {
"Type": "String",
"Default": "db.t2.small",
"AllowedValues": [
"db.t1.micro",
"db.m1.small",
"db.m1.medium",
"db.m1.large",
"db.m1.xlarge",
"db.m2.xlarge",
"db.m2.2xlarge",
"db.m2.4xlarge",
"db.m3.medium",
"db.m3.large",
"db.m3.xlarge",
"db.m3.2xlarge",
"db.m4.large",
"db.m4.xlarge",
"db.m4.2xlarge",
"db.m4.4xlarge",
"db.m4.10xlarge",
"db.r3.large",
"db.r3.xlarge",
"db.r3.2xlarge",
"db.r3.4xlarge",
"db.r3.8xlarge",
"db.m2.xlarge",
"db.m2.2xlarge",
"db.m2.4xlarge",
"db.cr1.8xlarge",
"db.t2.micro",
"db.t2.small",
"db.t2.medium",
"db.t2.large"
],
"ConstraintDescription": "must select a valid database instance type.",
"Description": "The database instance type"
},
"EC2SecurityGroup": {
"Default": "default",
"Type": "String",
"AllowedPattern": "[a-zA-Z0-9\\-]+",
"ConstraintDescription": "must be a valid security group name.",
"Description": "The EC2 security group that contains instances that need access to the database"
}
},
"Conditions": {
"Is-EC2-VPC": {
"Fn::Or": [
{
"Fn::Equals": [
{
"Ref": "AWS::Region"
},
"eu-central-1"
]
},
{
"Fn::Equals": [
{
"Ref": "AWS::Region"
},
"cn-north-1"
]
}
]
},
"Is-EC2-Classic": {
"Fn::Not": [
{
"Condition": "Is-EC2-VPC"
}
]
}
}
}