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AWS > Rds >

Encrypt Cluster Storage Data

HIGH
Source
Trivy
ID
AVD-AWS-0079
cloudformation terraform

There is no encryption specified or encryption is disabled on the RDS Cluster.

Encryption should be enabled for an RDS Aurora cluster. When enabling encryption by setting the kms_key_id, the storage_encrypted must also be set to true.

Impact

Follow the appropriate remediation steps below to resolve the issue.

Enable encryption for RDS clusters

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Resources:
  GoodExample:
    Type: AWS::RDS::DBCluster
    Properties:
      KmsKeyId: something
      StorageEncrypted: true

Enable encryption for RDS clusters

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resource "aws_rds_cluster" "good_example" {
  name              = "bar"
  kms_key_id        = "arn:aws:kms:us-west-2:111122223333:key/1234abcd-12ab-34cd-56ef-1234567890ab"
  storage_encrypted = true
}
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