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Medium RDS · regional

RDS DB instances should be configured with multiple Availability Zones

Confirms that RDS DB instances use a Multi-AZ deployment, which keeps a synchronous standby in a second Availability Zone and fails over to it automatically. RDS Custom for SQL Server and RDS Custom for Oracle instances are evaluated too, and convert the same way once their Multi-AZ prerequisites are in place.

service
RDS
severity
Medium
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

RDS → Databases → the DB instance → Modify → Availability & durability

With the AWS CLI

aws rds modify-db-instance --db-instance-identifier <db-instance-id> --multi-az --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_db_instance" "this" {
  instance_class = var.instance_class
  multi_az       = true
}

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