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RDS with Insufficient Backup Recovery

RDS backup retention for clusters defaults to 1 day, this may not be enough to recover from an accidental or malicious data loss.

Remediation

Increase the back retention to more than the default value. See https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/rds_cluster#backup_retention_period

Metadata

  • Severity: informational
  • Slug: rds-with-insufficient-backup-recovery

OWASP

  • A05:2021: Security Misconfiguration

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