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AWS RDS Instance Creation

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AWS RDS Instance Creation

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Identifies the creation of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database instance.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

filebeat-*
logs-aws*

Severity: low

Risk score: 21

Runs every: 10m

Searches indices from: now-60m (Date Math format, see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_CreateDBInstance.html

Tags:

Elastic
Cloud
AWS
Continuous Monitoring
SecOps
Asset Visibility
Persistence

Version: 6

Rule authors:

Elastic
Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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## Setup

The AWS Fleet integration, Filebeat module, or similarly structured data is required to be compatible with this rule.

Rule query

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event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:CreateDBInstance and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CK^TM

Tactic:
- Name: Persistence
- ID: TA0003
- Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0003/

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