AWS-Neptune-DB-auto-minor-version-upgrade-enable

Severity: Medium

Description: This control checks status of the "auto minor version upgrade" for the database engine used by the database instance and ensures that database engine for Database instance is provisioned to upgrade automatically to newer available minor versions. Enabling database engine "auto minor version upgrade" ensures that it receives all required updates and patches minimizing risks against known vulnerabilities with the database engine.

Remediation Steps:

Perform following to configure auto minor version upgrade 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. Select database Cluster to configure, Choose Modify.

  5. In section Maintenance, set Auto minor version upgrade to yes

  6. Click Continue.

  7. Under the Scheduling of modifications option select Apply Immediately.

  8. Click Modify DB Cluster.

Important:

Reference:

modify-db-instance — AWS CLI 1.36.4 Command Reference

 

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