AWS QLDB ledger has deletion protection is disabled

Description

Amazon Quantum Ledger Database (Amazon QLDB) is a fully managed ledger database for cryptographically verifiable transaction logging. You can use the QLDB API or the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) to create, update, and delete ledgers in Amazon QLDB. You can also list all the ledgers in your account, or get information about a specific ledger. Deletion protection is enabled by default. To successfully delete this resource via Terraform, deletion_protection = false must be applied before attempting deletion. In CloudFormation the flag that prevents a ledger from being deleted by any user. If not provided on ledger creation, this feature is enabled (true) by default.

Code Example

resource "aws_qldb_ledger" "sample-ledger" {
  name             = "sample-ledger"
  permissions_mode = "STANDARD"
+ deletion_protection = true 
}

Remediation

Terraform

• Resource: aws_qldb_ledger
• Arguments: deletion_protection

Rule Details

Field	Value
ID	IAC-0221
Severity	LOW
IaC Type	Cloudformation
Frameworks	CloudFormation, Terraform, TerraformPlan, Serverless
Checkov ID	CKV_AWS_172

References

• Checkov Rule

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