RDS

Adversaries with elevated IAM permissions may disable deletion protection on AWS RDS instances or clusters as a prerequisite for unauthorized data destruction.

The modification of the master password for an AWS RDS DB instance or cluster can indicate malicious activity used for persistence, privilege escalation, or defense evasion.

Detection of AWS RDS database instance restoration from a snapshot or S3 backup, potentially indicating unauthorized data access, defense evasion, or data collection by adversaries recreating database environments to bypass controls or exfiltrate sensitive data.

An adversary may export RDS snapshots to Amazon S3 to exfiltrate sensitive data outside of RDS-managed storage, potentially bypassing database access controls and leading to unauthorized data theft.