id: rds-event-sub-enable info: name: RDS Event Subscription Not Enabled author: princechaddha severity: high description: | Ensures Amazon RDS event notifications are enabled for database instance level events, allowing for real-time alerts on operational changes. impact: | Lack of event notifications may delay the response to critical RDS operational events, affecting database availability and performance. remediation: | Enable RDS event notification subscriptions for relevant database instance level events through the AWS Management Console or AWS CLI. reference: - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_Events.html tags: cloud,devops,aws,amazon,rds,aws-cloud-config variables: region: "ap-northeast-1" self-contained: true code: - engine: - sh - bash source: | aws rds describe-event-subscriptions --region $region --query "EventSubscriptionsList[?SourceType == 'db-instance'].CustSubscriptionId" matchers: - type: word words: - '[]' extractors: - type: dsl dsl: - '"There are no Amazon RDS event subscriptions created for instance level events in " + region + " AWS region"'