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An RDS event notifications subscription should be configured for critical database parameter group events

Checks that a Region with RDS event subscriptions has an active one for DB parameter groups covering configuration change, so an edit that can change logging or TLS enforcement on every database using a group is announced. A Region with no subscriptions at all passes, so green can mean nothing is configured; one scoped to named groups passes too.

service
RDS
severity
Low
scope
evaluated in every region

How to fix it

In the console

RDS → Event subscriptions → Create event subscription → Source type → Parameter groups

With the AWS CLI

aws rds create-event-subscription --subscription-name <subscription-name> --sns-topic-arn <sns-topic-arn> --source-type db-parameter-group --event-categories "configuration change" --region <region>

With Terraform

resource "aws_db_event_subscription" "this" {
  sns_topic        = var.sns_topic_arn
  source_type      = "db-parameter-group"
  event_categories = ["configuration change"]
}

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