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Existing RDS event notification subscriptions should be configured for critical database instance events

Checks that each RDS event subscription for DB instances covers the maintenance, configuration change and failure event categories, so a pending maintenance action, a settings change or an instance failure reaches its SNS topic. A pass does not show that the subscription is enabled, or that it covers every instance rather than named ones.

service
RDS
severity
Low
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

RDS → Event subscriptions → the subscription → Edit → Source

With the AWS CLI

aws rds modify-event-subscription --subscription-name <subscription-name> --event-categories maintenance "configuration change" failure --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_db_event_subscription" "this" {
  sns_topic        = var.sns_topic_arn
  source_type      = "db-instance"
  event_categories = ["maintenance", "configuration change", "failure"]
}

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