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AWS RDS Instance Creationedit

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: 10 minutes

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

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

Tags:

  • Elastic
  • Cloud
  • AWS
  • Continuous Monitoring
  • SecOps
  • Asset Visibility

Version: 1

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0

Rule authors: Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

Potential false positivesedit

A database instance may be created by a system or network administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Instances creations from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guideedit

## Config

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

Rule queryedit

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

Threat mappingedit

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

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