LoFP / valid clusters or instances may be stopped by a system administrator. verify whether the user identity, user agent, and/or hostname should be making changes in your environment. cluster or instance stoppages from unfamiliar users or hosts should be investigated. if known behavior is causing false positives, it can be exempted from the rule.

Techniques

• T1489

Sample rules

AWS RDS Instance/Cluster Stoppage

• source: elastic
• technicques:
  • T1489

Description

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

Detection logic

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