rds-instance-deletion-protection-enabled

Checks if an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) instance has deletion protection enabled. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if an Amazon RDS instance does not have deletion protection enabled; for example, deletionProtection is set to false.

Warning

Some RDS DB instances within a Cluster (Aurora/DocumentDB) will show as non-compliant.

Identifier: RDS_INSTANCE_DELETION_PROTECTION_ENABLED

Resource Types: AWS::RDS::DBInstance

Trigger type: Configuration changes

AWS Region: All supported AWS regions except Asia Pacific (Osaka), Israel (Tel Aviv), Europe (Spain), Europe (Zurich) Region

Parameters:

databaseEngines (Optional)

Type: CSV

Comma-separated list of RDS database engines to include in the evaluation of the rule. For example, 'mysql, postgres, mariadb'.

AWS CloudFormation template

To create AWS Config managed rules with AWS CloudFormation templates, see Creating AWS Config Managed Rules With AWS CloudFormation Templates.