Neptune DB Clusters Does Not Have Deletion Protection Enabled

Overview

This control assesses whether deletion protection is active for a Neptune DB cluster. The control reports a failure if the deletion protection is not enabled for the Neptune DB cluster.

Activation of deletion protection provides an extra safeguard, preventing inadvertent or unauthorized deletion of the database. As long as deletion protection is enabled, it is impossible to delete a Neptune DB cluster. Disabling deletion protection is a prerequisite for a successful delete request.

Vendor

AWS

Cloud Service

RDS

Related Controls

Neptune.4

Severity

2

Item Types

AWS::RDS::DBCluster