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Severity: High

Description: This control ensures that the RDS DB Instance use unique Master Usernames instead of defaults ("root", "awsuser", "admin", "rdsadmin"). This user has extensive privileges on the database instance which includes creation on databases and modifications of tables. If not specified during the time of creation of the Instance, a default username is set for the Master username.

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