rds-postgres-instance-encrypted-in-transit - AWS Config
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rds-postgres-instance-encrypted-in-transit

Checks if connections to Amazon RDS PostgreSQL database instances are configured to use encryption in transit. The rule is NON_COMPLIANT if the associated database parameter group is not in-sync or if the rds.force_ssl parameter is not set to 1.

Note

The rule returns NOT_APPLICABLE if the Amazon RDS instance is part of an RDS cluster.

Identifier: RDS_POSTGRES_INSTANCE_ENCRYPTED_IN_TRANSIT

Resource Types: AWS::RDS::DBInstance

Trigger type: Periodic

AWS Region: All supported AWS regions except Asia Pacific (Thailand), Asia Pacific (Malaysia), Mexico (Central), Asia Pacific (Taipei), Canada West (Calgary) Region

Parameters:

None

AWS CloudFormation template

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