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AWS Foundational Security Best Practice
RDS.25
RDS database instances should use a custom administrator username
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AWS
AWS Relational Database Service
This control checks whether an Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) database instance has changed the admin username from its default value. This rule will only run on RDS database instances. The rule will fail if the admin username is set to the default value.
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