https://medium.com/cloud-security-review/3-ways-to-keep-your-rds-instances-secure-1f2d04e3cc75

So you’ve gone ahead and done what tens of thousands of other companies are doing, and moved your database operations into the cloud. This can be quite advantageous, freeing up your developers’ time, and facilitating patching and DB maintenance.

On the other hand, it comes with another set of problems: the complexity of AWS’ offerings can make it difficult to know whether or not you are following best practices and keeping your databases secure. Here are 3 things you should make sure you are doing in order to protect your data and database operations: