AWS-025 Amazon Web Services (AWS)

RDS instances are not publicly accessible.

RDS instances are not publicly accessible.

Domain
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Area
Data Protection
Automated / manual
Automated

Risk if it fails

Public DBs are directly attackable.

A publicly reachable database invites direct password attacks and exploitation of unpatched bugs, leading straight to mass data theft.

How Tess tests it

1 test — each concludes only on cited evidence.

RDS instances are not publicly accessible.

Automated
Procedure
Confirm PubliclyAccessible=false for all instances.

Read-only command 

aws rds describe-db-instances --query 'DBInstances[].{Id:DBInstanceIdentifier,Public:PubliclyAccessible}'

More in Amazon Web Services (AWS)

AWS-001 Root account MFA is enabled. AWS-002 No access keys exist on the root account. AWS-003 Root account is not used for day-to-day activity. AWS-004 Strong IAM password policy is enforced.

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