Policy: AWS > CIS v4.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.02 - Relational Database Service (RDS) > 2.02.04 - Ensure Multi-AZ deployments are used for enhanced availability in Amazon RDS

Configures auditing against a CIS Benchmark item.

Level: 1

Amazon RDS Multi-AZ deployments provide enhanced availability and durability for Database Instances, making them a natural fit for production database workloads. When you provision a Multi-AZ DB Instance, Amazon RDS automatically creates a primary DB Instance and synchronously replicates the data to a standby instance in a different Availability Zone.

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 v4.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.02 - Relational Database Service (RDS)

Controls

Setting this policy configures this control:

AWS > CIS v4.0 > 2 - Storage > 2.02 - Relational Database Service (RDS) > 2.02.04 - Ensure Multi-AZ deployments are used for enhanced availability in Amazon RDS

Policy Specification

Schema Type	`string`
Default	`Per AWS > CIS v4.0 > 2 - Storage`
Valid Values [YAML]	`Per AWS > CIS v4.0 > 2 - Storage` `Skip` `Check: Benchmark`

In Your Workspace

Policy Settings by Type report

Developers

Category URI

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

Policy Type URI

tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204

GraphQL

query policyType(id: "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204") { … }

query policySettings(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204'") { … }

query policyValues(filter: "policyTypeId:'tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204'") { … }

CLI

Get Policy Type

turbot graphql policy-type --id "tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204"

Get Policy Settings

turbot graphql policy-settings --filter "policyTypeId:tmod:@turbot/aws-cisv4-0#/policy/types/r020204"