AWS RDS Instance/Cluster Stoppage

Elastic Stack Serverless Security

Identifies that an Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) cluster or instance has been stopped.

Rule type: query

Rule indices:

• filebeat-*
• logs-aws*

Severity: medium

Risk score: 47

Runs every: 10m

Searches indices from: now-60m (https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/common-options.html#date-math[Date Math format], see also Additional look-back time)

Maximum alerts per execution: 100

References:

• https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/stop-db-cluster.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_StopDBCluster.html
• https://awscli.amazonaws.com/v2/documentation/api/latest/reference/rds/stop-db-instance.html
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/APIReference/API_StopDBInstance.html

Tags:

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

Version: 7

Rule authors:

• Elastic

Rule license: Elastic License v2

event.dataset:aws.cloudtrail and event.provider:rds.amazonaws.com and event.action:(StopDBCluster or StopDBInstance) and event.outcome:success

Framework: MITRE ATT&CKTM

• Tactic:

  • Name: Impact
  • ID: TA0040
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/tactics/TA0040/

• Technique:

  • Name: Service Stop
  • ID: T1489
  • Reference URL: https://attack.mitre.org/techniques/T1489/