Elastic Security Detection Rules

AWS Deletion of RDS Instance or Cluster

Last updated 5 months ago on 2025-01-15
Created 5 years ago on 2020-05-21

About

Identifies the deletion of an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) Aurora database cluster, global database cluster, or database instance.
Tags
Domain: CloudData Source: AWSData Source: Amazon Web ServicesData Source: AWS RDSUse Case: Asset VisibilityTactic: ImpactLanguage: kuery
Severity
medium
Risk Score
47
MITRE ATT&CK™

Impact (TA0040)(opens in a new tab or window)

↳ Data Destruction (T1485)(opens in a new tab or window)

False Positive Examples
Clusters or instances may be deleted by a system administrator. Verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. Cluster or instance deletions by unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. If known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.
License
Elastic License v2(opens in a new tab or window)

Definition

Rule Type
Query (Kibana Query Language)
Integration Pack
Prebuilt Security Detection Rules
Index Patterns
filebeat-*logs-aws.cloudtrail-*
Related Integrations

aws(opens in a new tab or window)

Query
event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:(DeleteDBCluster or DeleteGlobalCluster or DeleteDBInstance)
and event.outcome:success

Install detection rules in Elastic Security

Detect AWS Deletion of RDS Instance or Cluster in the Elastic Security detection engine by installing this rule into your Elastic Stack.

To setup this rule, check out the installation guide for Prebuilt Security Detection Rules(opens in a new tab or window).