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
  • Persistence

Version: 5 (version history)

Added (Elastic Stack release): 7.14.0

Last modified (Elastic Stack release): 8.4.0

Rule authors: Elastic, Austin Songer

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 by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Investigation guideedit


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

Rule version historyedit

Version 5 (8.4.0 release)
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Version 3 (8.1.0 release)
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Version 2 (7.16.0 release)
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