Workload misconfigurations

RDS database instance has automated backups disabled

Platform(s)
Compliance Frameworks

AWS Foundational Security Best Practices Controls, Brazilian General Data Protection (LGPD), CCM-CSA, CCPA, cis_8, coppa, CPRA, Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) Best Practices, essential_8_au, essential_8_au_level_1, essential_8_au_level_2, hdh, iso_27001_2022, iso_27002_2022, New Zealand Information Security Manual, NIST 800-53, Orca Best Practices, PDPA, pipeda

Description

Automated backups are disabled for the RDS instance {AwsRdsDbInstance}. Backups help protect against human error, ransomware attacks, and downtime. If periodic backups are not present, recovering from such incident becomes exponentially harder.