Policy: AWS > CIS v2.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.03 - Relational Database Service (RDS) > 2.03.03 - Ensure that public access is not given to RDS Instance

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

Ensure and verify that RDS database instances provisioned in your AWS account do restrict unauthorized access in order to minimize security risks. To restrict access to any publicly accessible RDS database instance, you must disable the database Publicly Accessible flag and update the VPC security group associated with the instance.

Targets

This policy targets the following resource types:

AWS > RDS > DB Instance

Primary Policy

This policy is used with the following primary policy:

AWS > CIS v2.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.03 - Relational Database Service (RDS)

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > CIS v2.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.03 - Relational Database Service (RDS) > 2.03.03 - Ensure that public access is not given to RDS Instance

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 2 - Storage`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v2.0 > 2 - Storage` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

tmod:@turbot/cis#/control/categories/v071406

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv2-0#/policy/types/r020303"