AWS New Checks

Ensure connections to Amazon Redshift clusters are encrypted in transit.
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon Redshift provides the capability to encrypt data in transit between your Redshift clusters and cli...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Ensure RDS clusters are protected by a backup plan
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon RDS offers automated backups for DB instances, which are critical for disaster recovery and ensuring...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ensure that your Amazon RDS instances are not using the default master username
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: By default, when an Amazon RDS instance is created, AWS assigns a master username, typically "admin&qu...
Fri, 28 Mar, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Ensure RDS clusters storage is encrypted
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon RDS provides the option to enable encryption at rest for RDS instances and clusters. Enabling storag...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 8:12 AM
Ensure RDS instances are deployed within a VPC
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: All Amazon RDS instances should be deployed within a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) to ensure that network sec...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Ensure RDS DB instances have copy tags to snapshots enabled
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon RDS allows you to associate tags with your database instances to organize and manage them more easil...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Ensure RDS Snapshots and Cluster Snapshots are public
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description:  Amazon RDS Snapshots and Cluster Snapshots are backup copies of your RDS instances and clusters. By defaul...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Ensure Kinesis streams should be encrypted at rest.
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed service for real-time streaming data. Encryption at rest ensures that d...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Ensure Kinesis streams should have an adequate data retention period.
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon Kinesis Data Streams are used for real-time data streaming and processing. Data in Kinesis streams...
Fri, 23 May, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Ensure Memory DB clusters have minor version upgrade enabled.
Profile Applicability: Level 1 Description: Amazon MemoryDB for Redis is a fully managed, Redis-compatible, in-memory database service built for dura...
Sun, 30 Mar, 2025 at 5:09 AM