Demystifying Best Practices and Enhancing RDS security with Amazon GuardDuty


Introduction

In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations increasingly rely on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS) to host and manage their databases. According to a recent Cloud adoption study, 94% of enterprises use cloud services and 48% of businesses choose to store their most important data in the cloud[1]. Security is a critical concern for organizations operating in the cloud, especially when it comes to securing sensitive and vulnerable data. Protecting compute resources, networks, and applications is essential; however, safeguarding data is arguably the highest priority. AWS has built its security infrastructure from the ground up, ensuring that