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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.cloudtrail-*

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:

Tags:

  • Domain: Cloud
  • Data Source: AWS
  • Data Source: Amazon Web Services
  • Data Source: AWS RDS
  • Use Case: Asset Visibility
  • Tactic: Persistence

Version: 206

Rule authors:

  • Elastic
  • Austin Songer

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Investigation guide

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Setup

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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&CKTM

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