AWS-Neptune-DB-multi-AZ-High-Availability-enable

Owned by naveen
Nov 23, 2021
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Severity: Medium

Description: This control ensures that the Multi-AZ deployment option is enabled for the High Availability of the Neptune Cluster. In a Multi-AZ deployment, the primary DB instance is synchronously replicated across Availability Zones to Replicas. A Neptune Database Cluster can be made Multi-AZ by adding a new DB Instance in the cluster in a separate Availability Zone.

Remediation Steps:

Perform following to enable high availability for Neptune :

  1. Login to the AWS Management Console at https://console.aws.amazon.com.

  2. Navigate to Neptune console.

  3. In the navigation pane, choose Databases.

  4. Click on the Database Cluster to be modified, click Actions.

  5. Choose Add reader.

  6. Under Network & Security choose the separate Availability zone

  7. Configure other settings appropriately.

  8. Click on the Create read replica.

Important:

Reference:

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/neptune/latest/userguide/feature-overview-availability.html

 

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