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Redshift clusters version upgrade is not default

Description

With Allow Version Upgrade feature enabled, the Amazon Redshift engine upgrades (also known as major version upgrades) will occur automatically so the data warehouse service engine can get the newest features, bug fixes or the latest security patches released.

Code Example

shell
{
 "aws redshift modify-cluster
--region us-east-1
--cluster-identifier cc-cluster
--allow-version-upgrade",
}

Remediation

CLI Command

. Run modify-cluster command (OSX/Linux/UNIX) using the name of the cluster that you want to update as identifier (see Audit section part II, step no. + 2) to enable AWS Redshift engine version upgrades for the selected cluster: +

Rule Details

FieldValue
IDIAC-0191
SeverityLOW
IaC TypeTerraform
FrameworksTerraform, TerraformPlan
Checkov IDCKV_AWS_141

References