AWS RDS Instance Has Backups Enabled

Risk

Remediation Effort

Medium

Low

This policy validates that all RDS Instances have backups enabled. A lack of backups can lead to data loss in the case of accidental or malicious data deletion.

Remediation

To remediate this, configure a backup retention period greater than 0.

Reference

AWS RDS Working With Backups documentation

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