Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon RDS) is a managed service you can use to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud. As organizations deploy more database instances across AWS accounts and AWS Regions, maintaining visibility of their expanding Amazon RDS fleet becomes increasingly complex. Understanding configurations, security settings, backup strategies, and compliance requirements across a distributed environment requires access to multiple accounts.
In this post, we show you how to build a centralized dashboard for monitoring Amazon RDS configurations across your organization by using AWS Config and Amazon Quick Suite. This solution delivers detailed insights across different areas, such as summary metrics, backup configurations, security posture, engine and support information, extended configurations, and resource tagging.
Solution overview
With a consolidated view, you can view various aspects of your Amazon RDS…
