Vulnerabilities
Misconfiguration
Runtime Security
Compliance
AWS > Documentdb >

Enable Storage Encryption

HIGH
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-AWS-0021
cloudformation terraform

DocumentDB storage must be encrypted

Unencrypted sensitive data is vulnerable to compromise. Encryption of the underlying storage used by DocumentDB ensures that if their is compromise of the disks, the data is still protected.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Enable storage encryption

 1
 2
 3
 4
 5
 6
 7
 8
 9
10
11
12
13
14

Resources:
  GoodExample:
    Type: AWS::DocDB::DBCluster
    Properties:
      DBClusterIdentifier: sample-cluster
      DBClusterParameterGroupName: default.docdb3.6
      StorageEncrypted: true

  InstanceInstanceExample:
    Type: AWS::DocDB::DBInstance
    Properties:
      DBClusterIdentifier: sample-cluster
      DBInstanceClass: db.r5.large
      DBInstanceIdentifier: sample-cluster-instance-0

Enable storage encryption

1
2
3
4
5
6

resource "aws_docdb_cluster" "good_example" {
  cluster_identifier = "my-docdb-cluster"
  master_username    = "foo"
  master_password    = "mustbeeightchars"
  storage_encrypted  = true
}
Aqua Security is the largest pure-play cloud native security company, providing customers the freedom to innovate and run their businesses with minimal friction. The Aqua Cloud Native Security Platform provides prevention, detection, and response automation across the entire application lifecycle to secure the build, secure cloud infrastructure and secure running workloads wherever they are deployed.
Copyright © 2025 Aqua Security Software Ltd.   Privacy Policy | Terms of Use